UN General Assembly
1983

210. In recent years, in this very forum, many voices have been raised to condemn the grave climate of tension on the international scene. This year it cannot be denied that the situation is even worse. The utterly despicable shooting down of a South Korean civil aircraft by the Soviet Union has made clear the fragility of the armed peace on which today's international relations are based and has shown clearly how close we are to the point of no return. However, we cannot allow ourselves to lose hope; rather, we must do everything we can to revive the process of detente. 211. In recent years the East-West conflict has been reduced to its strictly military aspects, with risks of undue simplification and over dependence on technological imperatives.