UN General Assembly
1963

109. In this context the original parties promised to discuss other interim measures to lessen world tensions and to secure peace. Their joint communiqué referred specifically to the Soviet proposal relating to a non-aggress ion pact between the participants in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the States Parties to the Warsaw Treaty. The proposal for such a pact is not simply the concern of the European and North American continents. The entire membership of the United Nations should concern itself with this matter of world-wide significance. The dangers inherent in the confrontation of the forces of the two organizations, aiming thermonuclear weapons at each other, are not only overshadowing the European and North American continents with the tragic possibilities of a thermo-nuclear disaster, but they are endangering the present and future generations all over the world. Delegations at this session, irrespective of the continents they represent, would do a service of world-wide importance if they could strengthen and stimulate the will of all concerned to negotiate a nonaggression pact between the two main military organizations. As the representative of a State Party to the Warsaw Treaty, I express the readiness of my Government to take part in such negotiations for the sake of international peace and security.