UN General Assembly
1972

65. The Ukrainian SSR attributes the positive results which have been achieved principally to the successful implementation by the Soviet Union of the program of peace put forward at the Twenty-fourth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to the vigorous foreign policy activities of the socialist countries and to the fact that the Governments of a number of other States have adopted realistic peace-loving policies. That is why the cause of peace can now count to its credit such momentous developments as the entry into force of the treaties concluded in 1972 by the Federal Republic of Germany with the Soviet Union and with Poland, the further expansion of co-operation between the USSR and France and other States, specific action in the preparation of an all-European conference on security and co-operation, the initiative regarding the convening of a world disarmament conference, the proposal regarding the establishment of a collective security system in Asia, and so on. Special mention should be made of the talks between the Soviet Union and the United States which resulted in the conclusion between those two countries of important agreements the implementation of which will clearly serve the interests of all States and the cause of universal peace. Even those who continue to slander the Soviet Union and its peace-loving foreign policy have been compelled to acknowledge the importance of this event.