UN General Assembly
1969

the Organization’s development should be translated into new collective efforts, new initiatives and new activities. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations should serve as a further incentive to this end. 75. The proposals of the Soviet Union on the strengthening of international security, as well as other proposals which the socialist countries have submitted for consideration at this session of the General Assembly, serve as examples of that very approach. Not only are these proposals not directed against any State or group of States but, on the contrary, conforming as they do to the basic and vital interests of all peoples, they are directed towards the maximum unification of the efforts of all States without exception with a view to achieving and strengthening universal peace. We hope that their full discussion will prove fruitful and will serve the purpose of the United Nations. 76. The Government of the Soviet Ukraine has consistently followed the precepts of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who declared in the early days of Soviet power that “...we promise the workers and peasants to do everything for