German Demlooratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany are havi,ng a favourablle influence on the political situation in Europe, opening up broad op-’ poritunities and pl-ospeds for further important #positive changes in Eu,ropean relations. 58. The delegation of the USSR considers that the adlmission to the United Nations of the Federal Repub- J.&Z of Germany, like the admission of the German Demoaratilc Republic, is oae of the mo!st important events in the history of ,&he life and work of the United Nations; it is equally a long ,ovedue, essential inter- national political action capable of .exerfiing a favoutr- able influence both on .the general state of international relatioas and on <the activities of ache United Nations.’ 59. Speaking at a reception on 21 May 1973 during his stay in the Federal Republic of Germany, Leoni’d &lich Brezhnev, General Secretary ,of the Central Com- mittee of the @ommunist P&Q of ,the Soviet Union, stalted: “The hour is at hand when tie German Democratic Republic anLnd the Federal Republic of Germany wil1 take their places in the United Nations an’d will be able to make a worthy contribution to the work of that world OFganization. A11 this substantially alters b’oth the int~e,nationaJ situation of your country and, to a considerable degree, the general climate of I-elations between Western and Eastern Europe.” 60. In this cobnnexion we cannot fail ~to express our satisfaction and our certainty that the trend towards the easing bf intscnational tension and the co8nsolidation of the policy of pesuce$ul coexistence wihll <prevail ovei the negative trends of the glolomy years of the “toad war” in world pc&cs. And in this sense the admission of the Gerlman Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations is an, eloquent testimony of this positive and irreversible 