UN General Assembly
1948

In the realm of politics it had been doing so by improving and intensifying its relations on the basis of treaties of alliance which were of an exclusively defensive character and sought solely to guard against the dangers which had threatened its existence as a State and a nation during the past war. Those alliances were conceived in the spirit of the Charter and expressly invoked its principles and the obligations accepted thereby, even in cases where the other contracting parties were States not yet admitted to United Nations membership, although they had a long time ago fulfilled the necessary conditions and manifested by their application for membership their desire for active co-operation in the cause of world peace. Czechoslovakia had entered into those alliances on the broadest possible basis of co-operation for peace, complementing them with economic, cultural and other agreements which made it possible for it to collaborate with the nations concerned more effectively and on a higher level.