UN General Assembly
1961

178. In this state of affairs, arising from the division of the world, was it not inevitable that crises would follow one another, each more dangerous than the last for the peace of the world? The renewed Berlin crisis coupled with the problem of Germany, which is pushing humanity to the brink of the precipice, cannot be considered in isolation from the competition which, since the end of 1945, has thus cast its gloomy shadow over the whole globe. Berlin and Germany are both cause and effect. They are the cause of the extreme danger which is threatening the immediate future of mankind and they are the effect of the situation which has resulted from the rift in the United Nations and of the desperate competition which has supplanted the Charter's spirit of co-operation.