UN General Assembly
1953

50. At the same time, Mr. Bidault, welcoming the delegates to the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in Paris, declared: “No problem in the world today can really be settled so long as the armaments race continues. Even those problems which look most difficult will become less difficult as soon as the use of force ceases to be a practical possibility at any moment. The key to the future, and, we believe, the only one that warrants hope, lies in substantial, simultaneous and controlled disarmament, and nowhere else.”