UN General Assembly
1969

question how to avoid war—paramount though that question remains. Today it is essential to know how to achieve peace that will guarantee equality of rights, economic progress and human freedom. 115. Peace is not endangered by differences in social systems. Experience has refuted the theory that countries with identical systems are natural allies while those with different systems are natural adversaries. Today disagreements and conflicts among countries with similar systems, and co-operation and friendship among countries with different systems, are so many arguments invalidating the numerous political dogmas upon which anti-communism, iron curtains and unconditional bloc disciplines have thriven for so many years. My country, which out of its deepest conviction opted for socialism, is successfully co-operating on all continents with many countries having different social and political systems. Where no positive result could be attained in this direction, the reasons were entirely different. 116. Does all this not indicate that the search for new grounds of international co-operation between all countries and peoples of east and west, north and south, between