UN General Assembly
1972

6. Today, 27 years after the last world conflagration, mankind is able to look with a measure of relief on important initiatives seeking to lessen the causes of tension among the great Powers. But everything that has been achieved in this vital field, where the very survival of the human species is at stake, has taken place outside the United Nations, without the latter having in any fashion influenced the march of events. 7. We enthusiastically applaud the partial successes already achieved in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Soviet-American and Chinese-American contacts, the German-Soviet treaty, the German-Polish treaty and the Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, as well as the progress achieved in the preparations for a conference on security and co-operation in Europe. But we would wish to see the spirit of conciliation and dialog that made that important progress possible prevail in this Organization also and make it possible to solve the crises and conflicts that still exist in the world today.