UN General Assembly
1967

101. Looking back over the last year to draw up a balance sheet, we can in truth find little encouragement in the list of successes achieved. On the contrary, it must be said that the period that has elapsed since the last session of the General Assembly has been a sad period in the history of the world, a period that has closed with a negative balance for the United Nations, since the progress that has been made in some fields has been counteracted by the stagnation, and even retrogression, in other aspects of the relations between nations and, which is even more important, relations between men.