UN General Assembly
1952

Unlike the North Atlantic Treaty, which is not an agreement based on the principle of respect for the sovereign equality of the parties, but was dictated by the United States, the five-Power peace pact must be an agreement based on the principle of equality in the relations among the parties, an agreement which genuinely pursues the aim of strengthening peace and of combatting aggression in whatever guise it may threaten the peace-loving peoples. The five-Power pact must guarantee a genuinely peaceful policy on the part of these Powers, in contrast to the North. Atlantic Treaty, which is undermined by fundamental internal contradictions and is based upon an erroneous premise — the negation of the sovereignty of States; its very basis is therefore unsound.