UN General Assembly
1957

47. If the Soviet Union were to accept those four propositions, the main obstacle to establishing European security would be removed. If, as a result of this self-determination of their future by the people of Germany, the Soviet Union felt any anxiety, the countries of the West would be prepared to enter into a treaty giving binding assurances designed to secure the Soviet Union against any threat of German attack. 48. The representative of the Soviet Union, in his rather scanty remarks about the problem of Hungary, said that it was provocative to inscribe the item called the Hungarian question on our agenda. He said it was time to realize and reckon with the fact that Hungary had had its say. I think that is an ominous phrase.