UN General Assembly
1961

120. The unperturbed functioning of the Secretariat is indispensable to our work. We must see to it that we continue to keep its machinery in good order. The need for administrative efficiency is, in my view, a decisive consideration. The Government of Denmark urges that an agreement on this vital issue be reached as expeditiously as possible. 121. As my colleague, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Lord Home, so clearly and convincingly argued in his remarkable speech yesterday, there can be no doubt that it would seriously endanger the viability and effectiveness of this young world Organization if the so-called "troika" system were accepted in> the form suggested by the Soviet Union. 122. The application of this principle would have a disastrous effect on our hopes and expectations in the United Nations as an effective tool for the preservation of peace and betterment of conditions of living for all regardless of differing ideologies and political groupings.