UN General Assembly
1972

144. The ratification of treaties concluded by the Federal Republic of Germany with the Soviet Union and with Poland, the visits of the President of the United States of America to Peking and Moscow and the agreements signed on that occasion, the readjustment of the policy of the great Powers to present-world realities, President Nixon's initiative to bring the Viet-Nam war to an equitable and democratic solution in sum, the detente which is emerging on the international horizon all are events of the greatest importance. 145. Nevertheless, as is pointed out by our Secretary- General in the introduction to his report on the work of the Organization: .. we should not be too euphoric about this development since previous post-war indications of detente failed to materialize into a durable relaxation of international tensions." [A/8701/Add.l, p. l.]