UN General Assembly
1953

53. The Polish people, who have a common frontier of peace with the German people along the Oder-Neisse line, are keenly interested in the unification and peaceful development of Germany. Poland, which is united by friendly relations with the German Democratic Republic, wishes to live in peace with the entire German people. It recognizes the legal right of the German people to a united, sovereign and democratic State. The unification of Germany on a peaceful and democratic basis, as defined in the Potsdam decisions by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, is the only path to be followed for the settlement of the German problem in accordance with the interests of the European peoples, including the German people themselves. This is the path indicated by the USSR Government’s proposal for the reconstruction of. a united, peaceful and democratic Germany. The conversations held recently between the USSR Government and the Government of the German Democratic Republic prove the realism of the Soviet proposals and show that the USSR Government is ready immediately to undertake the steps essential to the signing of a peace treaty with Germany.