UN General Assembly
1950

30. We should be very clear in our minds about this obstacle. It is not the rise of the USSR as a strong national Power which creates difficulties. It is not the existence of different social and economic systems in the world. Nor is it, I firmly believe, any desire on the part of the Russian people for war. The root of our trouble is to be found in the new imperialism, directed by the leaders of the Soviet Union. 31. To be more explicit, the USSR Government raises five barriers to peace. 32. First, Soviet efforts to bring about the collapse of the non-Soviet world, and thereby to fulfil a prediction of Soviet theory, have made genuine negotiation very difficult. The representative of Lebanon, Mr. Charles Malik, stated it precisely at the fourth session when he said: “There can be no greater disagreement than when one wants to eliminate your existence altogether.”