UN General Assembly
1963

123. A further step towards easing the tension between East and West might be possible in connexion with unsettled questions of outer space. An agreement along the lines of the statements made by President Kennedy [1209th meeting] and Foreign Minister Gromyko [1208th meeting] that outer space should be kept free from weapons of mass destruction would certainly have a profound psychological effect on the peoples of the earth in their earnest desire for peace. In the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Austria has endeavoured to promote an acceptable solution to the questions which have not yet been settled, and I think I can state that these efforts have found a positive response.