UN General Assembly
1982

America and Southeast Asia along with the political, economic and military threats and blackmail in regard to many countries by the two super-Powers, all go to show that they are pursuing a policy of oppression and aggression. There is no area in international relations where one does not encounter their policy from a position of force; there is no armed conflict or hotbed of tension that, directly or indirectly, the super powers do not have a hand in. More than ever before, they are arming their war machines by adding to their arsenals of new, sophisticated weapons. The propaganda clamor about disarmament by the superpowers is nothing but a maneuver to cover up their frenzied arms race. And at the same time as they are arming themselves, they are engaging in an arms traffic which has become a business of immense scope, from which they reap fabulous profits and which increases the political and economic dependence on them of various countries. 107. In order to conceal their true aims and to deceive the peoples, the super-Powers make a