UN General Assembly
1955

7. The four-Power meeting at Geneva dramatized this central truth. This, indeed, was its main achievement For that reason alone, a conference which reached no accord on any specific item of its agenda could yet be accounted successful. The parties at Geneva disagreed on disarmament, on Germany, and on the role and character of a European security arrangement. Their differences on Far Eastern problems were not even submitted for discussion. Leaving these basic discords unsolved, the four Powers nevertheless were united in their determination that a solution by war must be ruled out of any sane calculation.