UN General Assembly
1950

51. Those were Mr. Vyshinsky’s words. However, the attitude of the Government of the Soviet Union towards Yugoslavia shows clearly that these words do not, for the time being, correspond to actual facts, that they are not, for the time being, sincere and that they are, for the time being, nothing but words. The USSR Government, and the governments under its influence, are in fact pursuing against the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, whose Government has always expressed its readiness to co-operate peacefully with all countries, including the Soviet Union, an aggressive policy of which the whole world is aware and which nothing can conceal. This policy is at present developing in accordance with the words of the former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Poptomov who, in his capacity as official representative of the Bulgarian Government, wrote on 8 January 1950, in the newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo, that the struggle against Yugoslavia “must be stepped up and waged with ever-increasing energy”.