UN General Assembly
1953

44. If we take a moment to ponder over the present post-Korean armistice period in which this General Assembly meets, we should note with a sense of satisfaction that there exists a rather different and more favourable atmosphere than was discernible when the General Assembly met one year ago. Indeed, since about the beginning of this year, there seem to have been indications that the cold war tensions are abating in a manner that raises once more the hope that the peoples of the world may soon enter a new era of better and more normal relations among all nations in this, so divided a world. That this hope has not been frustrated in this Organization is to be ascribed, I think, to the sincere efforts of the Member Nations in this Assembly. Some encouragement in the right direction was made in the course of our deliberations during the second part of the last session of the General Assembly, in April of this year. The Armistice Agreement in Korea on 27 July of this year was a worthy crowning of these collective and sincere efforts for peace.