UN General Assembly
1969

values of international social justice. Consequently, we must move from an international order based on bilateral agreements between Governments towards one founded on multilateral institutions established by the peoples. We must move from national autarchies to the creation of a supra-national society through successive processes of integration. In short, we must work towards an international order aimed at the universal common good and based on international social justice. 95. Having described the foundations which, in my Government’s view, are indispensable for the attainment of lasting and fruitful peace for the full development of man, we wish to express our most fervent hope that violence will be banished from the world. The most obvious form of violence — war - still persists in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in all its tragic manifestations: the dead and the wounded, hunger, destruction, poverty and the shipwreck of man’s dignity. We are shocked and deeply disturbed that efforts to achieve peace have ended in failure. 96. But armed struggle is not the only form of violence. Colonial oppression that prevents nations from choosing