UN General Assembly
1974

125. The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, which is continuing in Geneva, is making a praiseworthy effort to bring about a climate of detente. Portugal, within the measure of its own modest influence, will seek to contribute towards this detente, and, to that end, has already established normal relations with the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. But beyond European detente, I am thinking now of world detente which requires from all of us a moment of reflection on the oneness of the human race, so rich in its diversity. 126. The cosmic and planetary man of the centuries to come cannot afford to be divided by the differences of race, creed and ideology which today confront the world and diminish it. Portugal, so many centuries old, a pioneer in contacts between the most varied civilizations, turns towards the horizon of the year 2000 with the hope that humanity will awake to its common origin and its common destiny.