UN General Assembly
1974

209. The difficult times we face require of all Governments, and of all those in positions of influence in the community, the greatest efforts of imagination, of decision and of good will. Let us make those efforts at every level -within our respective countries, in bilateral relations, in regional co-operation systems, and within the broad universal framework of the United Nations. From the last generation of statesmen we received this Organization, with its qualities and its shortcomings, with much of its potential still unrealized. Let us fulfill that potential not only "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", but also so that they may attain a more prosperous, more dignified and more just way of life through international co-operation.