UN General Assembly
1957

73. Does this mean that an agreement cannot be reached here and now on effective and practicable measures to prevent surprise attack and on the execution of initial measures to reduce conventional armament and prohibit atomic weapons? No, it does not. In this connexion, the Soviet delegation would like to recall the USSR Government's proposals for the establishment of control posts at railway stations, at ports, on highways and at airfields. We submitted a specific proposal on this subject to the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission. However, the other members of the Sub-Committee took a negative attitude towards our proposal, resorting here again to their favourite method: they told us that the proposal, while sound in principle, would be acceptable only if certain conditions were fulfilled. From the discussion it became clear that the proposal was in fact being rejected, since its acceptance was made contingent upon the acceptance by the Soviet Union of other disarmament proposals made by the Western Powers which would certainly not lead to agreement.