UN General Assembly
1950

156. The Assembly’s jurisdiction is thus clearly defined; it constitutes what may be called the, legal foundation for any proposal for convening the Assembly in case of emergency to deal with the exigencies of peace when the Council is paralysed. I must point out that this is a question with which we have always been much concerned. At San Francisco, in the debates in Committee II, we asked: can we accent an Assembly which is impotent when confronted with a paralysed Council? It would be tantamount to accepting that the United Nations was at the mercy of a single Power.