UN General Assembly
1964

33. This Assembly is meeting at a time when important developments are taking place in many parts of the world. We are glad to see that international tension has not increased. The major nuclear Powers, which bear the primary responsibility for preventing a world catastrophe liable to destroy the human race and its civilization, fortunately continue to show a desire to work for peace and to refrain from threats or provocations in their mutual relations. This atmosphere has developed since the 1962 crisis in the Caribbean area, during which the world barely avoided the disaster of a nuclear war. We hope that this same atmosphere will continue and that it will be possible to strengthen peace, especially through substantial progress in achieving disarmament and in finding appropriate solutions to the serious international problems before us.