UN General Assembly
1952

29. That is what it all comes down to, and I think that we must hesitate about the answer. The General Assembly has given serious attention to this question since 1949. At its fourth session, it adopted a resolution [290 (IV)] entitled “Essentials of peace”, in which it stated that disregard of the principles of the Charter was primarily responsible for the continuance of international tension. The Assembly realized the necessity of repeating that serious statement at its fifth session, in the resolution [377 (V)] entitled “Uniting for peace”, of 3 November 1950. We have, therefore, all admitted in these two resolutions adopted in two successive years that the fundamental principles of our Charter have not been universally observed, and we have twice emphasized that the non-observance of these principles is the primary reason for the continuance of international tension.