UN General Assembly
1960

73. It is noteworthy that the United States delegation and those of other leading NATO countries up to now have been doing everything to belittle the significance of the present session of the Assembly, to hinder its fruitful activities and ”prove” the uselessness of Heads of State and Government participating in its work. But in doing so they only show that the Governments of these States are seeking to keep away the United Nations and its supreme body, the General Assembly, from discussing and solving essential world problems. That it is so is graphically shown by the fact that the Western Powers refuse to discuss in the plenary meetings the questions of disarmament and the abolition of colonialism, the most important problems of today, putting forward at the same time the farfetched and provocative proposals like the ”questions” of Hungary and Tibet. The lack of any serious constructive proposals on the part of the delegations of the Western Powers and at the same time their desire to hamper discussion by the Assembly of the very important and really urgent questions put on the agenda by the Soviet Union and other peace-loving countries — that is the position of these Powers at the present session which exposes them before the whole world as the opponents of refreshing the international atmosphere, consolidation of peace and security of peoples.