UN General Assembly
1972

3. This body, this Assembly, epitomizes an international society which reveals, every living minute, the inherent reciprocity and interdependence among nations. Local problems do not necessarily remain localized and we, as a community of nations, would be unrealistic to regard them in isolation. In this regard, then, my delegation views with the utmost concern and alarm the continuing, and indeed the increasing, gravity of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The continuing failure to reach a lasting solution in this matter clearly requires the urgent attention of all right-thinking men and a strengthening, or perhaps a readjustment, of the apparatus set up by this Assembly to help resolve the situation.