UN General Assembly
1963

26. The specific problems to be dealt with in our deliberations clearly point the way for us to follow. To their solution we must bend every effort and thus satisfy the desires of the world's people who, with growing hopefulness are watching the progress of this important session of the General Assembly. 27. Our century, especially in its recent decades, has witnessed vast and astounding changes in the international picture. Those changes have obeyed the impulse of dynamic and irresistible forces set in motion by circumstances that make our epoch unique in history. Perhaps at the very heart of this process of change lie the unprecedented technical advances which are growing in a geometrical progression. Its effects, however, have made themselves felt in the extremely important moral and psychological phenomena it has engendered. Mankind as a whole has reacted to the impact of the new concepts now placed in the service of ancient ideals, and today we witness their repercussions on the relations among States.