UN General Assembly
1963

25. In present circumstances, marked by growing mutual confidence, the Government of the Soviet Union has taken decisive new steps to bring the positions closer together. Taking into account the objections raised by the Western delegations, the Soviet Union has expressed its agreements that a strictly limited number of intercontinental, anti-aircraft and anti-missile rockets should be retained exclusively in the territories of the Soviet Union and the United States until the end of the third stage of the disarmament process [see 1208th meeting, para 137], The delegation of the People's Republic of Bulgaria welcomes this new initiative taken by the Soviet Government to meet the Western Powers half-way on this point. Now it is their turn to adopt an equally constructive approach towards the substance of the treaty on general and complete disarmament. It is hardly necessary to recall that disarmament is a goal which cannot be reached through the goodwill of only one partner in the negotiations. As an old proverb so aptly puts it, "One good turn deserves another."