UN General Assembly
1983

124. It is in Europe that there is the greatest concentration of armaments, including nuclear armaments. It is in Europe that the two opposing military blocs face one another, blocs created, as is well known, during the period of the "cold war", blocs that foment mistrust and confrontation. The situation demands strong and consistent measures to eliminate the bloc policy, to reduce the military activities of the two blocs, to narrow the geographic area of military competition, to eliminate the nuclear danger from the widest possible areas and to ensure the widest possible military disengagement. 125. At present the crucial problem for Europe is the danger of the deployment this very year of new medium- range missiles, which would open the v ay to the escalation of the arms race and increase the danger of war, above all nuclear war, thus threatening the life of all the European peoples—indeed, life itself—and human civilization.