UN General Assembly
1960

229. There is also the overriding issue of disarmament. We have set forth our views on this question on different occasions. We are of the opinion that general and complete disarmament with effective controls should be possible between the two groups of Powers. The tragic record of past negotiations has not been alleviated by what we have heard during the opening days of this session of the General Assembly. IS there anything new which we of the uncommitted nations can contribute to the solution of this vast problem in which we have so Little voice but so large a stake? I believe that there is. All are agreed that a continuation of the accelerating and fantastic armaments race is suicidal. Yet any basis of agreement between the power blocs, riveted into their hostile positions, seems as distant as ever. Certainly the efforts to reach some agreement should be continued through any means that the General Assembly can devise.