UN General Assembly
1969

gift to mankind, you agreed on a partition of the world and laid down the boundary stones of your zones of influence. Thus, the allies of yesterday became adversaries and the earth was split into two opposing camps. 96. As architects of this partition, it is your responsibility today to end it. Why can your present leaders not regain the spirit which was evident in their predecessors at the Moscow Conference in October 1943, or which, the following year, inspired your jurists meeting at Dumbarton Oaks? Do you think that you can bring nearer the day of universal well-being by maintaining permanent and dangerous tensions in the four corners of the earth through your influence or interference? 97. It is true that, by a last-minute stroke of wisdom, your Governments have so far been able to avoid the worst. At their instigation, commitments have been assumed and treaties prepared for signature. But the effort made is still insufficient. To bring about a relaxation of tension, it is not enough for a State to propose that its neighbours should