En la Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas de 1947, con motivo de la votación sobre la partición de Palestina, la Unión Soviética, mediante el canciller Sr. Andrei Gromyko pronunció el siguiente discurso:
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as everyone knows, has had no direct material or other interests in Palestine; it is interested in the question of Palestine because it is a Member of the United Nations and because it is a great Power that bears, just as do other great Powers, a special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace.
