UN General Assembly
1974

243. In conclusion, let me express all the faith and hope that my country places in our Organization in its efforts to ensure the maintenance of peace on our planet and to promote co-operation among all nations of the world. But everyone in this Assembly is aware of the threats to this fragile peace and this co-operation that has not yet found its true path. The arms race is a real peril which we cannot forget and which must constantly be dendUnced. It compromises the development of our countries by diverting vast resources to hastening the apocalypse; it makes peace more remote when selfish interests are at stake, when the fate of humankind remains subject to the will of certain Powers, unless wisdom can prevail to halt this frenzied race immediately and destroy the existing arms stockpiles. 244. Those, in brief, are the few thoughts that my Government has charged me to put forward at this twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly.