UN General Assembly
1971

137. We can thus see a number of indications during the current session that international relations are improving. But we know also that the process of improvement comes up against many difficulties and that a number of political elements are taking pains to stop and reverse that process. However, as the general debate in the General Assembly at this session has been characterized by good hopes rather than by recriminations, I do not now wish to specify those difficulties and negative factors. 138. The foreign policy of the Hungarian People's Republic is guided by the following principles. 139. First, as in our domestic policy we wish to work for the fundamental good of the people, so in our foreign policy we are out to ensure more favorable international conditions of existence for the people. 140. Second, since the future of our people, and of all peoples, is fundamentally dependent on the possibility of preventing a thermonuclear war, we join in all major schemes of international co-operation aimed at warding off the dahger of thermonuclear war.