UN General Assembly
1980

136. How else can we describe the decision steadily to increase the armaments of NATO right up to the end of this century? What can we say about the fact that those who are already sufficiently armed as it is have nevertheless decided, in addition to flood Western Europe with new medium range missiles? Who started to delay and complicate the ratification of the SALT II Treaty? When did this happen and, especially, why did it happen? Why is the anti-peace and anti-progressive alliance of international imperialism and Chinese hegemonism constantly being strengthened with ever-growing intensity? Do American military bases abroad—from Guantanamo in Cuba, across eastern Africa and as far as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean—serve the noble idea of spreading detente to all continents? Or is the newly proclaimed nuclear strategy, which fosters the naive illusion of the acceptability of some kind of "limited" nuclear war, to be taken as a peace-making gesture and an indication of concern to improve the international situation?