UN General Assembly
1961

103. At present this requirement is all the more compelling since the international situation has worsened and the danger of a new world war has increased. The fact that from one year to the next solutions have been deferred to such basic problems as the liquidation of the sequels of the Second World War, general and complete disarmament and the final liquidation of colonialism has led to an immense accumulation of explosive material in the world and has brought about a situation in which all delays in the adoption of constructive solutions would entail most serious dangers for the peace and security of all States. The forces of imperialism persist in maintaining the sequels of the Second World War, in continuing and intensifying the armaments race and in keeping their colonial possessions; they cling to all that is antiquated, backward and obsolete; they obstruct the solution of major international problems so as to maintain an outdated situation that is hated by the peoples.