UN General Assembly
1965

14. Another item of machinery that should be available to the United Nations for the furtherance of peace-building activities is a political task force which can step in and intervene even before a dispute has had time to crystallize into a justiciable one. Recent experience has shown that the United Nations has, happily, been successful in bringing about a cessation of hostilities and a cease-fire in a number of situations, but in most of these areas the United Nations has been unable to resolve the basic causes underlying the conflicts. It has had to content itself with the maintenance of a mission merely to enforce the continuance of the cease-fire. This, as recent history has shown, has led to a feeling of frustration and of disillusionment among the contending parties and a loss of faith among a large number of other nations that have looked forward to a final resolution of the causes of conflict in the areas of tension.