UN General Assembly
1962

157. Another problem represents a threat to world peace — the problem of Berlin. There is general agreement that the Germany of today is not the Germany of pre-war days and that it cannot be made to bear for ever the burden of the victory over Hitlerian madness. My country, which long suffered from the division of its territory and the arbitrary separation of its peoples, earnestly hopes that through peaceful negotiations the Powers concerned will find common ground leading to the reunification of the two Germanies. Berlin and its now famous wall cannot constitute the crux of the German problem. The Powers concerned must acknowledge the German people's indefeasible right of self-determination; Germany must be given the opportunity freely to decide its own destiny. We should, however, be failing in our duty if we did not make our approach in our debates an essentially human one. For what is it, in the final analysis, that we are trying to do?