UN General Assembly
1971

204. If we could add new achievements to our record, it is likely that faith in the United Nations might increase, that distrust among nations would disappear as well as inter-national tension, which is what has disrupted so far the kind of co-operation which must exist among nations if there is to be solidarity and interdependence. And these are the ideals which have not yet found practical expression in spite of efforts to preserve peace in all quarters of the world and to ensure that all peoples will have a right to the common heritage of security, without which we might all return to a period which existed before our present civilization, perhaps even to a time of barbarity. If we could only make progress on these lines, that would surely go a long way towards the settlement of many items on our agenda. 205. Unquestionably, putting an end to the armaments race and using those astronomical sums for social and economic improvements in nations would be one of the most effective ways of ensuring security.