UN General Assembly
1964

71. We attach great importance to the promotion and extension of all forms of bilateral co-operation and economic, cultural, scientific and technical exchanges, and to the political contacts necessary for better mutual understanding. Our policy of improving and strengthening bilateral relations has met with a favourable response in many countries, on all continents. It goes without saying that such a policy is beneficial to both sides; but it is obviously also of universal value. After all, good bilateral relations are, in the aggregate, part and parcel of over-all international co-operation; they enrich and strengthen it and are the essential factor in peaceful coexistence.