UN General Assembly
1961

5. At a moment when three years of patient negotiation on the banning of nuclear tests seemed about to bear fruit, the Soviet Union brusquely resumed the thunder and the pollution of the atmosphere which we had all hoped to avoid. This is a negation of the concept of peaceful co-operation and has created another obstacle to the achievement of disarmament, of which our world stands in such dire need. 6. The shadow that these dangerous developments cast over the Assembly renders it more than ever necessary that each country should make its contribution, large or small, to an improvement in the world situation, and that it should do so in the spirit indicated by the late Secretary-General. 7. It is with these considerations in mind that the Netherlands Government has decided to place before the Assembly a plan which we have conceived for the welfare and peaceful development of an area under our sovereignty: Netherlands New Guinea.