UN General Assembly
1968

66. In the past few years, we did our best to induce the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and its allies to recognize these historical realities. Our effort was in vain, or rather of little avail. But we witnessed a new military build-up in West Germany, and there came a new upsurge of revanchist and neofascist tendencies in public life, and political manoeuvres directed against the historical realities. We, the States Members of the Warsaw Treaty, made proposals for a system of European security to be elaborated with the simultaneous dissolution of the military alliances. It was to no avail. But we witnessed new attempts to strengthen the NATO contingents in Europe. In addition to all this, there are incontestable signs that some United States quarters would like to offset the obvious failure of their South-East Asian policy by generating new tensions on the European scene.