UN General Assembly
1961

35. The Soviet Union, as all representative^ here know, has also put forward disarmament plan, the general philosophy of which is explained in the letter [A/488 7] of the Soviet Foreign Minister to the President of the Assembly. Delegations may be asking themselves whose plan is the better—that of the Soviet Union or that bf the United States. I suggest that it is unnecessary for this Assembly to decide that question. 36. In the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament at Geneva, as also at the fifteenth session of the General Assembly and in the bilateral discussions this summer between the United States and the Soviet Union, there has been a drawing together of viewpoints, in spite of all the halts and setbacks. The main evidence of this drawing together is the Joint Statement of Agreed Principles just mentioned,