UN General Assembly
1963

179. We pay unanimous tribute to the efforts of all who worked to achieve this first practical result. We take note of the addresses recently delivered from this rostrum by the President of the United States of America [1209th meeting] and by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union [1208th meeting]. But at the same time we say, to all the men of goodwill who have helped to give us this foretaste of international "détente", that they are far from the end of their labours. Not only does the ban still have to be completed and every possibility of war eliminated by means of a thoroughgoing destruction of nuclear and conventional weapons, but a genuine reconversion having the immediate effect of allocating to peaceful needs the resources released by abandonment of the myth that one must at all costs possess the most improved and therefore the most destructive machinery of war has still to be undertaken. For mankind's vocation, that which has always constituted the beauty of its mission on our planet, is not destruction —everybody knows that— but rather all the patient endeavours and operations to ensure for man ever-increasing prosperity and the full development of his whole self.