UN General Assembly
1970

108. The Charter was founded on the proposition that the major allied Powers, those which carried the heaviest burden of the war, would share the main responsibility for preserving the peace. If this concept was to be successful it had to be postulated on the continued existence among the major allies of the same unity of purpose that had carried them to the point of victory and on a common interest in maintaining world peace in 'he future. It was with that expectation, indeed on t! edition, that the major allies were given a special position under the Charter, with rights and obligations exceeding those of all other Members.