Abstract
On September 16, 1987, an article entitled ‘Reality and Safeguards for a Secure World’ authored by Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev was published in the Soviet Press. On the occasion of the 42nd Session of the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Petrovsky presented an aide memoire to the article of the General Secretary. What is noteworthy about the Petrovsky speech at the UN is its comprehensive approach to international peace and security, that is the notion of security as encompassing military, economic, and cultural dimensions of human life—long advocated by peace researchers—is now being formally proposed at the highest levels of political leadership. We publish it here as part of the continuing dialogue on these questions.—Editors.
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