UN General Assembly
1956

3. During the early years of the United Nations, the Security Council acted to some purpose, as in the cases of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Iran and the aid given by the “satellite” countries to the Communist uprising in Greece. Since 1947, however, the Council has been paralysed whenever there has been a conflict of opinion between the Soviet Union and the West. 4. It was to overcome the drawbacks of an unrestrained use of the right of veto by the Soviet Union that the United States delegation, in 1950, put forward a system in the “Uniting for Peace” resolution [377 (V)] whereby the General Assembly could be convened almost immediately in the event of the paralysis of the Council. It was not until a case arose in which the United Kingdom and France were involved that this system was put into effect. We note this fact without bitterness but not without misgiving.