UN General Assembly
1963

20. The Moscow Treaty is certainly the outcome of the efforts made by our envoys in Geneva, but, because of the new spirit of understanding with which it is imbued, it is also the embodiment of something higher, which some find puzzling but which those who believe in spiritual values feel to be more strongly tinged with spirituality, an expression of the mystery surrounding everything which confounds our logic. Of course, at the diplomatic level and in the field of international law, the Moscow Treaty is just another instrument, as fragile and subject to the imponderables of life as any other. Nevertheless, it is permeated by a new spirit, which is shown, not by the eagerness with which nearly all States —a hundred already— have acceded to it, but by the encouraging changes we can see in the new political trend. The scepticism which is so often cherished in the hearts of men will for some time to come take the form of mistrust, expressed in catchwords about "responsibility" and "sovereignty", but that cannot blind us to the rapprochements which are taking place, for the light of human reason is prevailing more and more over vanity and pride.