UN General Assembly
1948

At the same time, attention had to be drawn to the utterly abnormal situation in which influential Members of the Organization were making use of their influence not for the purpose of carrying out the recommendations of the General Assembly and relevant measures but, on the contrary, for the carrying out of measures basically contradictory to and incompatible with those recommendations. Such was the case, for example, with the Palestine question, the Indonesian question, that of discrimination in the Union of South Africa, and a number of other important questions. There was no need to put special emphasis on how injurious were the violations of the Charter of the United Nations and particularly the adoption of such unlawful decisions as, for example, the decisions regarding the establishment of the Interim Committee, the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea, the so-called United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans, to the authority of the General Assembly and the United Nations generally.