UN General Assembly
1982

5. The leaders who have addressed the Assembly on the international situation, while not agreed on the causes, have been unanimous concerning the gravity of the situation that now prevails. They have spoken of the continuing armed conflicts in some regions, the heightened confrontation in others and the cease-fires and the fragility of the peace obtaining elsewhere. They have also spoken of the dire poverty and hunger of many millions of the world's people, the plight of millions of refugees, the millions of unemployed and the world's economy in recession. And they have spoken of the patent incongruity of the continuing expenditure of billions on the arms race ostensibly to provide security but in truth leading us inexorably to a nuclear holocaust.