UN General Assembly
1987

In our view, progress in these directions will give real impetus to the efforts for the implementation of the proposals put forward by the State parties to the Warsaw Treaty for a substantial reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments from the Atlantic to the Urals, The carrying out of the initiatives advanced by the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other European States for the establishment in the centre and other parts of Europe of corridors and zones free from nuclear, chemical and other weapons, and free also from the concentration of armed forces, has now become a matter of immediate urgent and practical significance as a first step towards the attainment of this goal.