UN General Assembly
1966

96. The twenty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opens, to our deep regret, inauspiciously, under the shadow of the most serious episode in the crisis that has shaken our Organization for many years, and especially since the accession to independence of many developing countries, which, as we know, has profoundly changed the balance of world forces. This crisis merely reflects the more general crisis of the colonialist system of imperialism. It has been suggested that the resignation of U Thant precipitated a crisis: but we must place this resignation in its true context within the over-all international situation. U Thant did not resign because he felt his burden was too heavy or that he was too tired and wanted to rest. He did not resign because he was weak or did not know which way to turn,