UN General Assembly
1961

96. Thus, as a result of the bilateral exchange of views, there has been presented to the General Assembly a document that may serve as a directive for the purpose of subsequent negotiations for the preparation of an agreement on general and complete disarmament, 97. But is it possible to say that the "green light" has been given and the road for disarmament negotiations is now clear? No, such optimism would today be excessive. It is, of course, a welcome development that the two States — the United States of America and the Soviet Union — which bear the main burden of armaments in the world of today have been able to agree on a common platform for the resumption of disarmament negotiations. But there is a real danger that attempts may be made so to interpret these provisions as to inject into them matter extraneous to genuine disarmament.