UN General Assembly
1960

111. On behalf of New Zealand, I welcomed these proposals in this hall [819th meeting]. I welcomed particularly the reaffirmation they offered of total disarmament as the goal of our endeavours. With many others, I questioned whether general and complete disarmament could be achieved within the short span of four years suggested in the Soviet proposals; but I was hopeful that real and measurable progress could be made. The important thing was to get as far as possible within those four years, 112. I need not review what has happened since that time. It has already beau thoroughly traversed. I shall say only that I do not support imputations of lack of good faith on the part of the Western leaders and their negotiators. In my view, not only should the negotiations not have been terminated, but there was every reason for them to continue. A delay of six weeks or six months in disarmament negotiations is, much more than we can afford.