UN General Assembly
1958

53. The General Assembly can and must promote that end at the present session, for its sacred mission is to promote the maintenance of peace. There are a number of important questions on its agenda a positive solution of which is in the vital interests of all States Members of the United Nations. First and foremost among them is, of course, the problem of disarmament. The need to solve that problem has never been so pressing as it is at present. The armaments race grows daily more menacing, until there is but a desperately small step left between piling up weapons and using them. It is absolutely essential to reach an agreement on the partial measures of disarmament submitted to the General Assembly for consideration in the USSR Government’s memorandum [A/3929].