UN General Assembly
1962

52. My delegation notes with great apprehension the storm-clouds which are developing on this side of the Atlantic over Cuba. Since we believe that there is universal agreement amongst us that each Member State has the sovereign right to choose its own form of government, we urge both the United States Government and the Soviet Union to refrain from interfering in Cuba's internal affairs and from armed intervention over Cuba. Any act on either side leading to warfare today is folly, but an unnecessary unleashing nuclear warfare on the world should be treated as an unpardonable and criminal folly.