UN General Assembly
1959

83. It would be difficult, indeed almost impossible, to over-estimate the importance of this agreement from the point of view of the development and strengthening of international co-operation. It strikes at the very roots of the insidious and senseless "position of strength" policy and paves the way for the settlement of controversial issues from "positions of good will”. It consequently offers better opportunities for restraining militarist elements, which, in some countries, are fabricating dangerous plans for new wars. The exchange of visits between Mr. Khrushchev, the Head of the Soviet Government, and President Eisenhower of the United States is rightly regarded by the peoples as a valuable and auspicious first step towards the normalization of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. It gives us genuine satisfaction to note that the General Assembly is apparently unanimous in taking a favourable view of the exchange of visits. The representative of Colombia, for instance, enthusiastically acclaimed the meeting between the leaders of the two great world Powers, the USSR and the United States, and the representative of Denmark said that the meetings could mark the beginning of a new era in international relations. These sentiments were echoed, in one way or another, by the representatives of Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Iran, Yugoslavia, Japan, Jordan, Burma and other States.