UN General Assembly
1962

185. The urgency of such measures was already confirmed at the sixteenth session of. the General Assembly, when the overwhelming majority of member States advocated the establishment of a denuclearized zone in Africa. At the very beginning of the present general debate [1125th meeting] the Brazilian delegation proposed that a similar zone should be established in Latin America. 186. It would be particularly desirable to take similar measures in Europe, where two world wars have broken out in the recent past and, where considerable armed forces are now Concentrated. 187. The proposal of the Polish People's Republic, which was fully supported by the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, to establish a zone free from nuclear weapons in Central Europe and the proposal for signing a non-aggression pact by the countries parties to the Warsaw Treaty and the parties to NATO, as well as other proposals, are particularly significant in this connexion.