UN General Assembly
1962

83. The maintenance in Europe of the after-effects of the Second World War, seventeen years after its close, and above all the absence of a peace treaty with Germany, likewise create a dangerous situation for the peace of the European continent and the entire world. The seriousness of this situation is illustrated by the conversion of West Berlin, under the occupation regime, into a NATO outpost on the territory of a socialist country, into a base for activity against the socialist countries. The longer that state of affairs continues, the more the dangers increase. The recent acts of provocation against the German Democratic Republic, the ever-expanding range of West German revenge-seeking activities, and the greater efforts to secure the equipment of the "Bundeswehr" with rockets and nuclear weapons, either directly or through NATO, bear eloquent witness to this.