UN General Assembly
1955

71. In taking the initiative, with the Government of Indonesia and other Governments, in convening the Bandung Conference, the Government of India, which has played an important part in many complicated international problems, rendered great service to the cause of world peace. 72. Nevertheless, the creation of regional systems of collective security can never replace a system of collective security covering the whole world. These regional systems are, as it were, the pillars on which a general system should rest, and it is the United Nations which should put such a system into effect. 73. The present situation is particularly favourable to the United Nations. The settlement of a number of disputes, the conclusion of a State Treaty with Austria, the normalization of the relations between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany, the conversations at Geneva between representatives of the People’s Republic of China and of the United States, are so many factors enabling the United Nations to play a more active part in the present international situation.