UN General Assembly
1966

30. The peoples of the world expect the United Nations to resolve these problems. With all their troubles and aspirations, they put great faith in our Organization. They look to us not for pious words but for solid results: agreements reached, wars ended or prevented, treaties written, co-operative programmes launched — results that will bring humanity a few steps, but giant steps, closer to the purposes of the Charter, which are our common commitment. 31. Realizing this, the United States has considered what it could say in this general debate that would improve the prospects for such fruitful results in the present session. We have concluded that, rather than attempting to review the many questions on the agenda to which we attach importance, we could make a more useful contribution by concentrating on the serious dangers to peace now existing in Asia — particularly the war in Viet-Nam — and by treating that subject in a constructive and positive way.