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Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6 The USSR Stands for Strengthening the UN, Peaceful Co-Existence of the Peoples RUE to the Stalin policy of peace, T the Soviet Union has from the very inception of the United Nations firmly and consistently upheld the noble prin- ciples embodied in that organization’s Charter and has uniformly worked for their application in practice. The attitude of the great country of socialism toward the United Nations was set forth with utmost clarity by J. V. Stalin on March 22, 1946, in his an- swers to the questions submitted to him by Associated Press correspondent Eddy Gilmore. He said: “TI attach great importance to the United Nations organization, as it is a serious instrument for the preservation of peace and international security. The strength of this organization consists in that it is based on the principle of equal- ity of states and not on the principle of the domination of one state over others. If the United Nations organization suc- ceeds in preserving this principle of equality in the future, it will unques- tionably play a great and positive role in guarantecing universal peace and se- cutity.” From the moment the UN began to function the Sovict Union has untiring- ly endeavored to make it an effective in- strument in the fight for peace. On the formation carly in 1946 of the Security Council, the UN’s principal organ for maintaining peace, the Soviet Union raised the question of stopping British armed intervention in Greece which was being carried on in violation of the law- ful right of the Greck people to fight for their freedom and independence. The USSR also vigorously advocated putting an end to the British and French occupation of Syria and Lebanon, there- by contributing to the liberation of these countries from foreign armed forces and to the restoration of their state sover- cignty. OCTOBER 13, 1950 By Academician L. Ivanov At the very first session of the Gen- eral Assembly V. M. Molotov submit- ted a proposal for a general reduction of armaments, an absolute ban on the use of atomic energy for military purposes, and the destruction of the existing stores of atom bombs. The proposal was in line with the vital interests of all peo- ples and was an important step in the endeavor to bring about lasting peace throughout the world. The fundamental principles of the Soviet resolution were, as is known, ap- proved by the First Session of the As- sembly on December 14, 1946. A num- ber of states, however, refused to give effect to the resolution; in fact, their policy was one of an armaments drive rather than of armaments reduction. With war propaganda on the increase, the question of combating this criminal propaganda, of prohibiting it, acquired special urgency. J. V. Stalin stated in October, 1946 in his reply to the Presi- dent of the United Press that to avoid a new war the peoples all over the world should “unmask and bridle the incendi- aries of a new war.” In September, 1947, at the Second Session of the General Assembly, the head of the Soviet delegation, A. Y. Vyshinsky, introduced a resolution con- demning the criminal war propaganda conducted by the reactionary circles of a number of countries. The resolution provided that the United Nations should urge all governments “on pain of crimi- nal punishment to prohibit war propa- ganda in any form whatever and to take measures for the prevention and sup- pression of war propaganda as a socially dangerous activity threatening the vital interests and welfare of the peace-loving nations of the world.” The Soviet Union’s proposal, which is an expression of the hopes and de- sires of the masses in all countries, met with furious opposition, first of all, from the representatives of the ruling circles.of the countries where war prop- aganda dictated by the mercenary inter- ests of the “knights of profit’ took on an especially unbridled character, But although the delegations of those coun- tries endeavored by every possible means to prevent the adoption of the Soviet resolution, the General Assembly did condemn war propaganda. At the Third Session of the General Assembly, held in 1948 in Paris, the Soviet delegation submitted a new pro- posal providing for a reduction by the five principal powers — Members of the Security Council — namely, the USSR, the United States, Great Britain, France, and China, of their armaments by one-third, and for a simultancous prohibition of the atomic weapon. ‘The Proposal was frantically opposed by the representatives of the imperialist pow- ers and was not accepted by the Assem- bly. Continuing to guard the principles of the UN, the Soviet Union at the Fourth Session of the Assembly in 1949 once more introduced a resolution con- demning the preparation of a new war which was being carried on in a number of countries. Hundreds of millions of people hailed the USSR’s clear-cut pro- posal that the USA, Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union conclude a peace pact, that the atomic weapon be unconditionally banned, and that the five powers reduce their armaments by one-third. The peoples rightly termed the proposals a program for peace. How- ever, it was not to the liking of the rep- resentatives of some other powers, who rejected each and every point. At the same time that they were op- posing the Soviet proposals, which were designed to strengthen the peace and secutity of the peoples, the ruling circles of the imperialist powers were under- - 601 Approved For Release 2004/02/19 : CIA-RDP83-00415R006800050005-6