UN General Assembly
1950

13. The first of these reasons was certainly that if the great Powers failed to agree, the matter should be placed before the smaller States, which, having no interests at stake, would be more capable of reaching an objective and impartial decision based on justice and equity. 14. The other reason for referring the question to the General Assembly, and at the same time, for designating that organ in preference to the Security Council, was the desire to prevent any failure to reach a solution due to the existence of the veto in the Security Council. 15. Such, at all events, are the only reasons which can justify referring the matter to the fifty-nine States members of the Assembly, whose disinterestedness and sense of equity are the only guarantees that a just decision will be reached in this matter.