UN General Assembly
1963

21. The Byelorussian people well know the sorrow brought by war. In the Second World War, we lost 1.5 million people out of a population of 10 million and more than half of our national wealth; in almost every family there was some one who did not return from the war. This is why the Byelorussian people are firmly opposed to the arms race and to the preparation for a new world war.