UN General Assembly
1978

81. It is in the light of this most urgent need of our day that we evaluate the Final Document of the special session [resolution S-10/2J. In our view, it gives, on the whole, a realistic assessment of the present situation in the field of disarmament and constructively sets out concrete goals. 82. Thus, we cannot complain about a lack of well-defined alternatives here, or about a lack of effective instruments to be used, as we fervently hope, for the dismantling of the hideous armaments monster. 83. Foremost among those alternatives is the document on practical measures for ending the arms race, submitted by the Soviet Union, which calls for the halting of the arms race and the blocking of the channels through which it is spreading and crossing ever new thresholds of great destructive power.