UN General Assembly
1961

146. Confronted with this particularly grave international situation, our Organization must undertake a thorough and detailed analysis of the scene and seek out and destroy the real causes which make difficult or impossible both a constructive approach and the working out of an appropriate solution to the entirety of these problems. 147. In the opinion of my delegation, the basic problem is not that of judging the merits of one disarmament plan or another or the effectiveness of any given approach to the settlement of the German problem, but is first and foremost a psychological one. What we must do is to escape from the ideological strait- jacket and overcome the distrust engendered by the confrontation of the two blocs and by the cold war which has resulted from it.