UN General Assembly
1980

129. This return to the cold war and this atmosphere of confrontation tend to produce a strengthening of military blocs and the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons. This rapid deterioration of the world situation certainly gives no grounds for optimism. The United Nations, whose primary responsibility is to ensure international peace and security, must do its utmost to restore an atmosphere of trust and detente in relations between States in order to ward off the danger of a general conflagration that still hovers over the world. 130. I should like to examine more closely the hotbeds of tension and conflict that I mentioned earlier and that continue to be matters of great concern to my Government.