UN General Assembly
1982

Treaty noted in their declara¬tion that the main threat to peace and detente lies in the arms race, encouraged by cold-war quarters and military and industrial complexes, as well as in the attempts to revive a policy based on a position of strength. This appraisal is substantiated by the present policies of ruling circles of NATO which are at variance with the basic requirements of international realities and are founded on an over-estimation of their own capabilities and an under estimation of those of others. Serious threats arise from the increasingly frequent attempts to globalize the NATO theatre of operations. The picture of the contemporary world is not made up only of disturbing trends and actions. The world's progress towards peace is actively affected nowadays by a constructive factor—the community of socialist States. Faithful to the unchanged guide¬lines of their foreign policy, members of our com¬munity continue persistently to oppose the policy of armament and to counteract the threat of nuclear war. They resolutely declare themselves in favour of a peaceful and just settlement of the problems of