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PALAMARCHUK

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“Since it is hardly possible for anyone openly to oppose disarmament nowadays, the NATO countries think up every possible excuse to prevent a constructive agreement on disarmament. One example of this approach to the settlement of the disarmament problem is the statement made by Mr. Lloyd on 24 September [685th meeting]. Instead of making any practical proposals for the prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons and the substantial reduction of the armed forces and armaments of States, he asked more than thirty questions relating to the technical details of elaborating an inspection system, what was to be understood by armed forces levels, what types of military services ought to be included in the definition and so on. Furthermore he added, "until you work out the practical details you will not get an agreement”. 42. Mr.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“They make all further reductions conditional upon the settlement of a number of political problems, and first and foremost on the unification of Germany, on conditions laid down by revisionist circles in Western Germany. 40. By linking the attainment of an agreement on disarmament to a political settlement, the Western Powers have brought both the disarmament question and the settlement of these political issues to an impasse. And what of the results? There have been none. In fact, the monopolies in the United States and the other NATO countries have no need of results, because to them the armaments race and international tension mean good business from which they can make fabulous profits. We may well ask whether the Western Powers are really interested in disarmament or whether merely talking about disarmament is enough for them. 41.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“By rejecting tire Soviet proposal for the reduction of the armed forces of the United States, the USSR and China to 1,500,000 men and of the United Kingdom and France to 650,000 men, which they had themselves proposed at one time, the Western Powers have revealed that they are not genuinely interested in any reduction of their armed forces. What they are offering in their proposal of 29 August 1957, [DC/113, annex 5], which they have been praising loud and long as a realistic proposal likely to lead to the termination of the armaments race, is in fact nothing but a repetition of their old and obviously inadequate proposals.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“By making the solution of the question of discontinuing nuclear weapons tests conditional on the settlement of other disarmament questions such as the reduction of armed forces and armaments, the cessation of the production of fissionable materials for military purposes, the establishment of a system of aerial inspection and other measures on which, as a result of the position adopted by the Western Powers, there is a considerable divergence of views, the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries are preventing the settlement of this question. 39. In the matter of the reduction of armed forces, armaments and military budgets, the Western Powers are also adopting an attitude which betrays the lack of any desire on their part to come to an agreement on these questions.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“After refusing to assume an obligation not to use atomic weapons, the Western Powers have claimed in their statements that they are ready to stop atomic and hydrogen weapons tests. They have even declared, as did Mr. Dulles [680th meeting] and Mr. Lloyd [685th meeting] in their statements before the Assembly, that they would agree to the discontinuance of such tests for two years. In reality, however, the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom are making it impossible to reach an agreement on this question.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“But since the Western Powers at present refuse to assume a general obligation not to use nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union, as you know, proposed that such an undertaking should be given for a five-year period, at the conclusion of which the question should again come before the United Nations, if no agreement on the renunciation of the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons had been reached. 37. The Western Powers also refuse to agree to the complete and unconditional discontinuance of atomic and hydrogen weapons tests. Since the Soviet Union is anxious to clear the way for the settlement of this question, it proposes that atomic and hydrogen weapons tests should be discontinued at least temporarily, for a period of two or three years, and that the necessary control over such discontinuance should be established. 38.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The adoption of these measures would undoubtedly remove the threat of the outbreak of a new war and would create peaceful conditions of life for all peoples. 34. The western Powers have declared that they do not intend to seek a radical solution of the disarmament problem. In an endeavour to rescue the disarmament talks from the impasse they had reached, the Soviet Union on 30 April 1957 submitted a new proposal to the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission [DC/112, annex 7] providing for the implementation of partial disarmament measures. 35. In the matter of atomic weapons, the Soviet Union proposed that two measures should be taken: firstly, States possessing atomic and hydrogen weapons should assume a solemn obligation not to use them for military purposes; secondly, nuclear weapons tests should be discontinued immediately, 36.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The fate of peace and peaceful international cooperation depends in large measure on whether the armaments race, and first and foremost the race for atomic and hydrogen weapons, can be stopped. Our Assembly must, unhappily, recognize that a solution to this urgent problem has not yet been found. 33. The Ukrainian people, like all the peoples of the Soviet Union and of other States, are in favour of a radical solution of the disarmament question, with the total prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons, the discontinuance of their manufacture and their elimination from the arsenals of States, the substantial reduction of the armed forces, armaments and military budgets of States, and the abolition of all foreign military bases in the territories of other States.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“But another social system is in existence now — the socialist system, which decisively rejects warlike policies. War is no longer inevitable now because the existence of socialist States — a group of States covering a large part of the earth and representing powerful forces of public opinion throughout the world, which are vocal in their opposition to war — offers ample opportunities for preventing a new war and for peaceful coexistence. 31. In this century, which has seen the development of atomic and hydrogen weapons, rocket techniques and inter-continental missiles, the peaceful coexistence of States regardless of their social structures is more necessary than ever before. Today there is no other way to peace and to the lessening of international tension than peaceful coexistence and friendly cooperation. 32.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“He even quoted Lenin. But he entirely failed to understand Lenin. From Lenin's assertion that capitalism breeds war he hurriedly drew the conclusion that the peaceful coexistence of countries with different social systems was in flat contradiction to that premise. The representative of Argentina, either intentionally or accidentally, confused two different concepts — the reasons why wars break out and the possibility of peaceful coexistence. 29. Is it not a fact that the age of capitalism has been an age of ceaseless warfare? And have not two world wars been provoked by the extreme aggravation of imperialistic contradictions between the capitalist Powers? Is not the recent case of the attack on Egypt by powerful imperialist nations for the purpose of colonialist plunder proof of this? Do not events in Oman indicate the same thing? 30.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“In the second place, if anyone is himself afraid and tries to frighten others by pointing out that it is the Soviet Union which is urging the General Assembly to approve the five principles, his fears may be set at rest, for these principles are successfully being applied in their mutual relations by a large number of States which together make up a considerable portion of the world. 27. What evil or danger could there be if the General Assembly, acting on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations, were to approve the declaration on peaceful coexistence? Could this possibly prevent the development of closer international co-operation or the establishment of trust between States? Of course not. 28. The representative of Argentina, in the general debate [693rd meeting], tried to prove that peaceful coexistence was. impossible.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The draft declaration, as we know, sets forth five principles of peaceful coexistence, namely: mutual respect for one another's territorial integrity and sovereignty; non-aggression; non-intervention in one another's domestic affairs on any economic, political or ideological grounds whatsoever; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful coexistence. Thus, what we are concerned with is the tenor and trend of the foreign policies of Members of the United Nations and not the acceptance of this or that interpretation of the term "peaceful coexistence".”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“25. The bitterest opponents of the idea of peaceful coexistence try to convince us that coexistence between the two systems is virtually impossible. What arguments have they advanced? None, save the assertion that the very term "peaceful coexistence" means, to the Soviet Union, something entirely different from what it means to States with a different social system. 26. In the first place, we are not talking about the adoption of the Soviet or, let us say, the Australian interpretation of the term, "peaceful coexistence".”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Krushchev continued, was a highly developed capitalist country, while the USSR was a highly developed socialist country, and ideological differences would always exist between them. Yet that should not prevent them from having good-neighbourly relations. And indeed they were neighbours in the north, where Chukotka was a stone's throw from Alaska. Ideological differences should be no impediment, Mr. Khrushchev concluded, to developing normal diplomatic, cultural, economic and other contacts. 24. By approving the draft declaration concerning the peaceful coexistence of Stages, the United Nations would naturally be able not only to improve the political atmosphere which is still uneasy, but also to help put into effect an important provision of the Charter, namely, that we should "live together in peace with one another as good neighbours".”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Khrushchev said that the question of international tension was essentially a question of the relations between two countries, namely, the Soviet Union and the United States. "The case of international tension," he said, "is like a cabbage. If you take off the leaves one by one, you come to the heart." In the present instance, he continued, if you eliminated all the disputed and unsettled issues one by one, you would come to the heart of the matter, which was the controversy between the United States and the Soviet Union. The question was therefore whether the relations between the two countries would develop on a friendly basis or whether strained relations would continue to exist between them. The United States, Mr.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“If such great Powers as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China and India can establish relations with each other on the basis of peaceful coexistence, then why cannot all the great Powers, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France, base their foreign relations on the same principles ? Why should not these principles form the basis of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union? Such a result would be of the utmost benefit not only to the peoples of the United States and the USSR but also to the other peoples of the world. 23. In that connexion, may I remind you of the words spoken by Mr. Khrushchev when he was interviewed by the managing editor of The New York Times on 10 May 1957. On that occasion Mr.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Herter has not yet gone so far as to suggest abolishing other States which differ from the United States, but in reality that is what he, taking his cue from the militarists, desires. He is mortally afraid that the people of the United States will grow old and tired and accept the idea of peaceful coexistence. Yet if there can be no peaceful coexistence, then what is Mr. Herter preparing for the peoples of the world: war? 22. It is perfectly obvious that in the present circumstances the first order of business should be to obtain recognition by the great Powers of the principles of peaceful coexistence, since it is primarily on these Powers that the fate of the world depends.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Their profession obliges them to keep those peoples in a state of tension and to sow the seeds of war hysteria, for if a peaceful atmosphere prevailed it might well be that appropriations for military expenditures would be cut and they would find themselves out of a job. But when statesmen, who ought to obey the dictates of reason and who should have a better understanding of their responsibilities, begin to engage in such activities, we have reason to be seriously concerned. 21. Only a few days ago, the United States Undersecretary of State, Mr. Herter, said in Boston that there could be no peaceful coexistence with other Powers organized within the Soviet bloc. Mr.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“19. We, of course, are not in a position to appraise the common sense or abilities of General Norstad or Field-Marshal Montgomery, but there would appear to be not the slightest doubt of their recklessness. The important point is that militaristic thinking of this kind is the natural outcome of the United States policy of strength which rejects the possibility of the coexistence in one world of two States with such widely different social systems as the Soviet Union and the United States. 20. Perhaps we could ignore the inflammatory statements of certain generals and admirals of the North Atlantic bloc inasmuch as they are not concerned with the peoples of the world.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“As recently as last May, Admiral Burke, the United States Chief of Naval Operations, boasted that the United States could deal a blow to the Soviet Union that would destroy it, while General Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander of the armed forces of NATO, who is a well known figure, threatened that the United States could destroy anything in the USSR it pleased. Giving free rein to his belligerence, General Norstad went on to describe how attacks could be launched on the Soviet Union from all sides from the hundreds of American military bases abroad and in the United States. That, he continued, was the present position, and he saw no reason why it should not be maintained with the use of new weapons in the future. British Field-Marshal Montgomery with brutal cynicism suggested dropping a powerful bomb on the Soviet Union and wiping it out.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“When a State or group of States, as in the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, form a bloc for the purpose of preparing for war, other States which are threatened with attack cannot sit back with folded arms. They must prepare to defend themselves, to meet force with force. The only result is to aggravate the situation and exacerbate passions. 17. The opponents of peaceful coexistence proceed from the premise that strength is on their side. Their mistake is that, drunk with their own power, they tend to overlook the power of others. Such self-deception obviously dulls the senses of certain strategists in generals' uniforms who, with calculated, cold-blooded cruelty, boast that they could wipe from the face of the earth whole States whose social systems are not to their liking. 18.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“That is all very well, but to learn to live with others it is necessary to want to live with them and to work for that end without preconceptions or prejudices, free from the dangerous illusion that the United States is called upon to "lead the world", to order others about and to tell them what their standards of conduct should be. 16. Unfortunately, the clear policy of peaceful coexistence propounded by the peace-loving countries, which accords with the interests of the peoples of the world, has so far been countered by the policy of negotiating "from a position of strength". That policy has nothing to recommend it and has not contributed to the solution of a single international problem.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“If we in this one world wish, in the words of the United Nations Charter, to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", we must recognize that the question which is the better political and social system can and should be decided not by the general staffs of our armies but by economic competition, not by war but by the results we achieve in our efforts to create a life worthy of man. 15. A certain renowned American has advised his countrymen, particularly those who determine the foreign policy of the United States, to learn to live with others in this world.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The delegation of the Ukrainian SSF wishes to state first of all that it supports the proposal calling upon the General Assembly to adopt the "declaration concerning the peaceful coexistence of States" [A/3673]. 14. The question of peaceful coexistence is vitally important for the destiny of mankind. The world is big; it comprises many nations with different social systems, some socialist and others capitalist. That is an indisputable historical fact. If in our time Archimedes were at last to find a place to stand and to succeed in moving the world, even after such a cataclysm man would discover upon looking about him that the States which now exist had not disappeared. No State can leave this planet. That is why we must live in harmony and seek an acceptable basis for cooperation.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Our people have fought for that policy both in times of peaceful development and in the days of frightful military conflict, when the Ukrainian people proved in the struggle against fascism that they were a worthy member of the great fraternal family of nations comprising the Soviet Union. 12. It is with profound conviction that we support the general foreign policy of the USSR in the Unite Stations. We shall continue to do so in the future, for the Soviet Union is a reliable bulwark of peace and of peaceful relations among nations and as such it acts in accordance with the vital interests of the Ukrainian people. The Government of the Ukrainian SSR has instructed my delegation to express its full support of the proposals submitted by the Soviet Union to the twelfth session of the General Assembly. 13.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“At the same time we are firmly convinced that we shall go on to even greater successes in the next few years, notwithstanding the complexity and size of the new tasks which confront our national economy. That conviction is firmly grounded in a realistic appraisal of the material and spiritual opportunities opened up by socialism. Under a unified economic planning system pooling the resources, capabilities and efforts of the Soviet republics, and taking into account their national interests, the Ukraine has advanced as far in forty years of socialism as it would otherwise have done in centuries. 11. The Ukrainian Socialist State has always advocated a peaceful foreign policy based on the principles proclaimed in October 1917.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Our per capita production of cast iron is approximately equal to that of the United States, while the production of coal and iron ore is considerably higher. In absolute figures of industrial output, the Ukraine produced more cast iron than either the United Kingdom, France, the Federal Republic of Germany or the Benelux countries, which are, of course, noted for their high level of industrial development. In the production of rolled ferrous metals, the Ukraine is surpassed only by the United Kingdom, its output being greater than the combined output of such highly industrialized countries as France and Belgium, or France and Italy. 10. Our people, as is only natural, are justly proud of these achievements.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The social relations and brotherly co-operation of the peoples of the Soviet Union, founded on the socialist principles of mutual help and support, have opened the door to the unlimited development of our productive forces, the unprecedented flowering of national culture and of science and the constantly increasing prosperity of our people. 9. Permit me to give a brief outline of the economic development of the Ukraine, a country now in the forefront of those European nations which have attained the highest level of economic development. The information furnished by our planning organs shows that the Ukraine has already surpassed all the capitalist States of Europe in the per capita production of cast iron, steal, rolled metal and iron ore.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“In its appeal, the Soviet Government of the Ukraine, announcing to the peoples and Governments of the entire world that it had been established, expressed at the same time its firm determination to defend the independence and inviolability of the Ukrainian SSR and its desire to live in peace with all peoples and States. 7. Like Soviet Russia, the Ukrainian SSR was born with the slogan of peace on its lips, and it is the constant concern of its people and Government to strive for peace and for the strengthening of friendly relations among nations. That aspiration unites us to all the peoples of the Soviet Union, with whom we maintain relations of close and brotherly co-operation on a basis of equality. The Ukrainian people look upon the Soviet Union as a firm guarantor of their national sovereignty and independence. 8.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“These people, who cannot conceal their irritation over the legitimate social changes which are taking place in the world, are trying to explain thorn, not infrequently from the rostrum of the United Nations, as the result of interference by outside forces. Yet it is as absurd to talk of the "export of revolution" as it would be to talk of exporting clouds from China to Cuba. 6. The glow of the October Revolution likewise illumined the birth of the Ukrainian Socialist State — the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Government of the Ukraine appealed at that time to all countries for peace and co-operation.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“Nehru, the renowned leader of contemporary India, stated that, almost simultaneously with the October Revolution led by the great Lenin, India had entered upon a new phase of its struggle for freedom. The Indian people, he went onto say, had for many years been taken up with that struggle and had endured grim oppression with courage and patience. And although the Indian people under Gandhi's leadership had taken a different road, they had admired Lenin and had been influenced by his example. 5. The revolution came about in Russia because the people desired it. Revolutions simply are not possible when the people do not want them. People who are obsessed by the idea of the "export of revolution" somehow fail to note that the revolution in October 1917 was not exported to Russia or the Ukraine by anyone from anywhere.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The process of historical renaissance has been gathering force over the past few decades like a mighty torrent released by the great event of the twentieth century, the socialist October Revolution, which had the effect of accelerating social development, of awakening millions of people and of associating them actively and creatively in the evolution of history. 4. The great founder of the Soviet State, Lenin, perspicaciously defined the Soviet people's revolution as the beginning of a new era in the history of the world. Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese democrat, saw in the triumph of the people's revolution the birth of a great hope for mankind, and Mr.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The composition of the United Nations shows how the political map of the world has changed at the halfway point in this tempestuous twentieth century. Among the Members of the United Nations are many countries which have won their freedom and independence comparatively recently, casting off the fetters of foreign oppression imposed upon them by colonialism, which is now on its way out. This inevitable historical process did not begin today. The world of today is not in the least like what it was only a short time ago.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“First of all I should like to congratulate Mr. Hammarskjold on the occasion of his election to the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations for a second term of office and to wish him success in the performance of his duties. 2. With the admission to the United Nations of the Federation of Malaya, eighty-two States are represented here irrespective of their social systems and ideological views. It would be more exact to say eighty-one States, since China, which was one of the founders of the United Nations, is not represented here by the legitimate government of the People's Republic of China. To suppose that the shadowy Chiang Kai-shek representatives from Formosa who wander about the United Nations express the will of the Chinese people is, politically speaking, to suffer paralysis of the brain. 3.”
1957-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 12 (1957)
“The General Assembly’s agenda contains items concerning a whole series of political, economic and social problems which are of great importance for the maintenance of peace and the strengthening of confidence among nations. We must patiently and realistically seek opportunities for the solution of these problems in a spirit of co-operation and mutual understanding 44. The worsening of the international situation is causing alarm among millions of people and calls for vigilance on their part. In the circumstances, it is important that the present session of the General Assembly should fulfil its duty towards the nations and contribute to a lessening of international tension and a strengthening of peace and security.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“All over the world there is a growing desire for the expansion of trade and other economic relations and the removal of the artificial obstacles still hampering trade between the West and the East. Yet the possibilities for establishing normal trade and economic relations between countries are not being fully used. The USSR delegation’s proposal that a world economic conference be convened in 1957 [589th meeting] should therefore be most attentively studied by the General Assembly, At such a conference the representatives of all countries would be able to have businesslike discussions and to exchange their views on ways and means for solving urgent international economic problems. We fully support this promising initiative of the USSR delegation. 43.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“The area under cultivation comprises almost 33 million hectares, including 8,600,000 hectares under wheat, more than 2 million hectares under potatoes and 1,260,000 hectares under sugar beet. 40. Every year sees a rise in the output of industrial and food products designed to satisfy consumer needs and to raise the standard of living. 41. In fraternal co-operation with all the peoples of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian people are carrying out a new five-year plan, which provides for a considerable growth of the Republic’s economy from 1956 to 1960. This opens up great prospects for participation in international trade in accordance with the Soviet practices of producing goods for export and consuming imported commodities. 42.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“The Ukrainian SSR, which plays an important part in producing Soviet export goods, uses a considerable proportion of the goods and services received by the Soviet Union from other countries. As a country with a highly advanced economy, the Ukraine is, of course, interested in the development of international trade on an equitable and mutually advantageous basis. 39. Our Republic occupies a large territory and possesses vast and varied natural resources. Under the socialist system, its economy has attained a high level of development. A few figures will suffice to illustrate this: in 1955, more than 16 million tons of cast iron were produced in the Ukraine, almost 17 million tons of steel, 13,600,000 tons of rolled iron and 126 million tons of coal.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“The United Nations and its organs, which have so far failed to achieve any real result in the matter of armaments reduction and the prohibition of atomic weapons, must not continue to maintain an attitude of patient inactivity, while the armaments race absorbs enormous material resources, places a heavy burden on the workers’ shoulders and threatens the world with a new and catastrophic war. 37. Alongside the problem of disarmament, international economic relations are coming to be of prime importance in our world. Neither individual nations, nor groups of nations, can fail to be interested in developing to the greatest possible extent the exchange of the products of their toil and their scientific, technical and cultural achievements, in the peaceful progress of mankind. 38.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
““Such a pact,” says the Soviet Government’s statement, “considering that the participants would include the Soviet Union and the United States — that is countries which possess the most powerful armed forces — would result in radical changes in the entire international climate and would help to lessen international tension and to create confidence between States.” 36. The Soviet Government’s proposals are an acceptable basis for an agreement on disarmament.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“It is also proposed, among other things, that nuclear weapons should be prohibited and that in 1957 the armed forces of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France stationed in German territory should be reduced by one-third, and that military bases in the territories of other States should be dismantled. 35. In addition, a non-aggression pact between the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the countries participating in the Warsaw Treaty is suggested.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“Without wishing to discuss all the aspects of the comprehensive and detailed disarmament programme proposed by the Soviet Union, I would draw the Assembly’s attention to the fact that the Soviet Government has taken a new and important step to meet the Western Powers half-way by expressing its willingness to consider the question of aerial photography to a depth of 800 kilometres east and west of the demarcation line between the armed forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Treaty countries stationed in Europe. 34. The proposals provide that the armed forces of the USSR, the United States and China should be reduced to 1,500,000 men each in the course of the next two years; those of the United Kingdom and France to 650,000 each, and those of the remaining States to 150,000 to 200,000 each.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“Mankind may be freed from the fear and danger of universal war and the whole international atmosphere may be radically changed if we carry out a comprehensive programme for the reduction of armaments and armed forces, the prohibition of atomic weapons and the establishment of effective international control. 32. The road leading to the attainment of this object is hard and strewn with obstacles, but the cost of war with all its horrors and sufferings is too high for us to be deterred by obstacles and difficulties. New and very real prospects on this road are opened up by the Soviet Government’s proposals of 17 November 1956 [A/3366] on disarmament and the lessening of international tension submitted to the eleventh session of the General Assembly. 33.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“In our time, however, when there are armaments capable of destroying the largest cities, the largest industrial and cultural centres, in a few seconds, the balance of power is a totally unreliable guardian of the peace. 29. To pursue a policy of balance of power is, particularly at the present time, tantamount to staking everything on the armaments race in order to ensure superiority in an atomic war. 30. This concept has wide currency and influential adherents in official quarters in the United States. It underlies the well-known doctrine of “teetering on the brink of war”. However, history teaches us that an armaments race inevitably leads to a world conflict. To teeter on the brink of war is as dangerous for universal peace as it is dangerous for a man to teeter on the top cornice of a New York skyscraper. 31.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“On the pretext that there is a constant threat to its security, which will continue unabated for a long time to come, the United States is contributing to the support of about 200 divisions in the armies of its allies;, according to a statement by Mr. Wilson, the United States Secretary of Defense. In the words of the Chief of Staff of the United States, they have become a focus of military activity in many countries. 28. The opponents of disarmament and international co-operation assert that war can be prevented by making weapons so terrifying that they act as deterrents, and by forming military blocs. They represent these blocs as “shields of peace”, and as a means of achieving some sort of balance of power.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“The United Nations has been discussing this difficult but urgent problem for many years. Unfortunately, however, we are today no nearer than we were ten years ago to a universally acceptable solution of this question. Let us be frank. The mountain of adopted or rejected resolutions on disarmament is still rising, while we return to our peoples every year almost empty-handed. This is happening because the same forces which have now exacerbated the international situation are obstructing, a solution of the problem of the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons. 26. While the Soviet Union is reducing its armed forces, the United States has thrown itself into an armaments race which furnishes a golden stream of profits to the capitalist monopolies. 27.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“Our people, who have lived through the horrors of Hitlerite occupation, know only too well the murderous ways of fascism, its base instincts and its hatred of humankind. 23. I should like to assure the Hungarian delegation from this rostrum that the Hungarian People’s Republic, now as always, has many friends who wish Hungary peace and success in the building of socialism. The Ukrainian people have been and remain the Hungarian people’s true friend and good neighbour. 24. The inflexible resolution to ensure a stable and lasting peace is something all the peoples of the world today have in common. What is the chief condition for the maintenance of peace? The answer is simple: that condition still is a reduction of armaments, the prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons and the cessation of tests of such weapons. 25.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“Some speakers included in their statements violent attacks against the Soviet Union and the Soviet army, and thinly veiled threats against the Hungarian People’s Republic and its delegation to the General Assembly. 21. However, there is no concealing the indisputable fact that the events in Hungary were part of a general conspiracy of the imperialist forces against international peace and security. It is easy to imagine what dangerous consequences would have resulted from the victory of reaction in Hungary. A fascist Hungary would undoubtedly have become the right hand of the German Wehrmacht, which is again ominously rearing its head in Central Europe. 22. The Government and people of the Ukrainian SSR are deeply perturbed at the intrigues of fascism in Europe.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“During the discussion of the so-called Hungarian question, on the other hand, that sensibility reached its peak and, in the case of some representatives, attained the stage of hysteria. The ink was hardly dry on the previous resolutions concerning the so-called Hungarian question, when the General Assembly yesterday adopted a new resolution [A/RES/413] intended to trample underfoot the sovereign rights of the Hungarian People’s Republic and to intensify the campaign of hostility against the Soviet Union. The resolution actually contains an ultimatum, unprecedented in the history of the United Nations, giving a sovereign Member State of the United Nations little more than twenty-four hours to agree to the admission of United Nations observers, and thus to permit gross interference in its domestic affairs. 20.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)
“Under that instrument, the use of armed force is permissible only in pursuance of a decision of the Security Council or, as prescribed in Article 51, in the exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence “if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations”. The United Nations was founded to save succeeding generations from the scourge and untold sorrow of war. The fact that, in the twelfth year after the United Nations was founded, an attempt is being made in this hall to justify war by calling it a proper means of settling international disputes, cannot but alarm us and set us on our guard. . 19. Sad to relate, such attempts to justify war have not disturbed certain delegations, known for their extreme sensibility.”
1956-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 11 (1956)