UN General Assembly
1960

67. International tension, which last year decreased encouragingly as a result of the visits exchanged by Chiefs of State and prominent world statesmen and the unanimous resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its fourteenth session on disarmament [1378 (XIV)] and on the suspension of nuclear tests [1402 (XIV)] began to mount again as a result of the failure of the Conference of the Heads of the Four Powers in Paris in May 1960. There were further unfortunate episodes, regarding which the Security Council had to take decisions, and more recently the Congo crisis to which I have just referred. Following on such episodes we saw the sudden suspension of the work of the Ten Nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva, the stagnation of the Conference on the discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the slow and difficult progress of the talks on that subject.