I disagree. Not completely but I don't think the US and USSR resolved it without the assistance of the UN, that was my point. My memory might be faulty (Google is always right of course) but U Thant did a lot of work to get things rolling. There's always the open theatre of the UN - which Stevenson used to remarkable effect - but of course the parties to a dispute will negotiate in private and that's exactly what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I know I'm putting a hypothetical but I wonder if the outcome would have been as successful without the UN being in place? Anyway I suppose I'm getting off the point here a bit.

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