UN General Assembly
1967

As you can see, our people are elaborating and carrying out large-scale plans for the construction of a communist society. However, in Byelorussia the pernicious consequences of war still make themselves felt. We have still not attained the pre-war population level. We render homage to those who fell in the struggle against fascism. The heroes of the war, dead and living, defended peace and freedom, laid the foundations of the post-war reconstruction of the world, enabled us all to create an international Organization for the maintenance of peace, where solutions for the fundamental problems of our era are being discussed and sought. We regard as a pledge to those heroes of the war the words in the United Nations Charter affirming that we are "determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind". That provision was worked out by the authors of the Charter, one of whom was my country. Over seventy States have joined this Organization since then.