UN General Assembly
1952

18. The Yugoslav delegation believes that the roots of the present tension between the Western countries, headed by the United States, on the one hand, and the USSR, on the other, are to be sought in the different points of view with regard to international problems — which were already apparent at Yalta, Teheran, Moscow and Berlin — and in a wrong approach to a number of specific issues discussed at those conferences which are still unsettled. I brought out this fact in my speech during the debate on the situation in Korea. This approach is based upon the policy of the division of spheres of interest among the great Powers, without regard.to the wishes of the small nations whose fate is at stake. The policy of dividing up the world into Spheres of interest, which was at one time rewarding to those who participated in it, is obsolete today. Any encouragement of this policy in the different circumstances of the present day can only breed new conflicts and new disputes. It is becoming more and more evident that the small nations will in the future offer increasingly determined resistance to any such policy.