UN General Assembly
1963

93. It was not so long ago that the Ukrainian SSR, together with a number of Asian and African countries, submitted to the United Nations the question of the eradication of illiteracy throughout the world. In accordance with the resolution adopted by the General Assembly at its sixteenth session [resolution 1677 (XVI)], UNESCO prepared a study which can serve as the basis for a joint United Nations -UNESCO policy in the campaign against universal illiteracy, the goal of which would be to bring the 700 million illiterates in the world into the active political and social life of their societies. Naturally, we are also interested in many other items on the General Assembly's agenda. 94. The maintenance of a lasting peace is a topic of special concern to the United Nations, Governments and peoples. In the contemporary world the unswerving application of the principles of peaceful coexistence in relations between States is the only possible and sensible policy.