UN General Assembly
1964

47. It is in this world-wide context that problems of peace and security are to be dealt with, both inside and outside the United Nations. Just as, when there is a threat of thermo-nuclear catastrophe, all aspects of the open questions in international life should be considered with special attention to international peace and security, so the questions of disarmament and decolonization should be solved quickly in view of the urgent needs of the newly emerging nations. Problems created inside or outside the United Nations which prevent us from dealing with the urgent needs of new Member States undermine this Organization, and international co-operation in general. 48. International developments of recent months provide a great many examples of how these most valid points of view were, or were not, taken into account, and their respective consequences are also clear. The contrasts may be rather instructive.