UN General Assembly
1972

114. This assertion, which emanates from the Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries, is worth thinking about. The Foreign Ministers of this group, who met at Georgetown last August, noted the development of an expanding multi-polar system which will replace the present division of the world into two antagonistic blocs. They also noted that, in the course of this evolution, new centers of power are appearing, while at the same time the aspirations of many countries to independence are being reaffirmed. We note that this analysis coincides with that which the Secretary-General of our Organization expressed recently, when he gave what we consider a valid opinion on the very concept of the Security Council itself. At the conclusion of his analysis he stated: "The interests, the wisdom and the importance of the vast majority of medium and smaller Powers cannot, at this point in history, be ignored in any durable system of world order." [A/8701/Add.l, p. 2.J