UN General Assembly
1963

84. As President Kennedy, Foreign Minister Gromyko and other distinguished speakers have suggested, what happened in Moscow on the question of nuclear tests can and should happen in various parts of the world where local tension threatens the peace. 85. We too believe that long and bitter debates from this rostrum and in the Assembly Committees, repeated year after year, are not conducive to the solution of problems. The United Nations certainly has a vital part to play in helping to resolve conflict. But if peace is to be assured, it still remains an inescapable necessity that the parties should meet around the conference table. 86. No Member State's expression of satisfaction with the negotiated agreement in Moscow can be taken seriously unless that Member State is prepared to apply the same approach to problems in which it is itself involved. The task of promoting peaceful solutions is the duty of each and all of us, and is the heart of the obligation we undertook on entering this Organization.