UN General Assembly
1985

First, the end of the Second World war brought in an era of sharp divisions in the form of East-West tensions coupled with ever-growing security concerns of a different magnitude. Nuclear weapons and the dilemmas arising out of their existence are also not in their fortieth year. Efforts for a progression from a cold war to a stable relationship through the search for detente and co-operation, and for arras control and disarmament, have not yet taken us to a point that could correspond to the basic assumption oE the Charter.