UN General Assembly
1970

31. Seventh, the output or achievement of the United Nations has not been commensurate with the input. The input consists of the numberless hours spent by representatives at meetings and conferences and by experts and other officials of the Secretariat in preparing reports for those meetings, and the resources of the 100 bodies and more commissions, sub commissions, committees, and agencies which make up the United Nations family system. 32. Why has so much apparent effort produced so little result? Perhaps one reason is the overlapping memberships of those bodies. Human ingenuity being limited, the same speeches are made over and over again by the same speakers in those different bodies. One would also be justified in suspecting that the great proliferation of United Nations bodies has not tended towards greater efficiency; on the contrary, it may have detracted therefrom. It is clear that the United Nations itself is in need of a family planning program.