UN General Assembly
1973

155. But who would benefit from a deterioration in the international atmosphere? After all, if we do, not solve the basic problems of international security and disarmament, we cannot improve, as we should like to, standards of living throughout the world, including those of the developing countries. 156. The forces of aggression, imperialism and colonialism are the instigators of a tension which, despite the general tendency to international detente, still exists in certain parts of the world, causing untold suffering to the peoples of those areas and threatening universal peace and the security of nations. It is deplorable that the efforts of the peace-loving nations and of the United Nations have not yet produced satisfactory results everywhere. It is therefore essential that those efforts be continued with even greater determination and that everything be done to ensure that the existing centres of war and tension, particularly those in the Middle East and in southern Africa, be eliminated.