UN General Assembly
1964

74. With regard to the States which are not yet Members of the United Nations, we believe that the admission of the two German States — the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany — to our Organization should be hastened. In any case, as the Secretary-General, U Thant, has pertinently suggested in the introduction to his report to this session [A/5801/Add.l], no country or State should be deprived of the opportunity to send observers to United Nations Headquarters or be discriminated against as far as contacts with our Organization are concerned. 75. For all Members of the Organization, great and small, the Charter of the United Nations is the basis for joint action to ensure peaceful coexistence. The proper functioning of the United Nations depends, of course, on the concerted action of the great Powers. But there is a close interdependence between the actions of the great Powers and those of all the other States. None of us can shirk his share of responsibility.