UN General Assembly
1963

164. By maintaining that a German peace treaty should be signed, not by the two German States which do exist, but only by a united Germany which does not exist, the Federal Government proves that it desires neither a German peace settlement nor the unification of Germany. 165. Of course, now that the Government of the German Democratic Republic has taken protective measures on its borders with West Berlin, the problem of the conclusion of a German peace treaty, viewed in the light of the socialist countries' immediate interests, presents itself differently from the way it did before these measures were adopted. But in the light of the fundamental need to safeguard peace and security in Europe, the conclusion of a German peace treaty has lost none of its urgency.