“With the era of great ideological confrontation behind us, mankind has managed to decrease the threat of self-destruction by nuclear conflagration and to establish sufficiently reliable mechanisms of international security.”

— Leonid Kuchma

Speech at the 50th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1995)

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