UN General Assembly
1961

Organization, and would iii turn facilitate and forward the process of settlement of other disputes. Lack of trust and confidence is the most serious handicap against which we have to contend. The restoration and maintenance of trust and confidence is the most important single factor which can help to bring about agreement on the major issues and help resolve the major conflicts. Trust and confidence are delicate plants and need careful nurture. To create confidence one must have confidence, to create trust one must be prepared to trust. The first requisite is that each of us must carry out, in the letter and in the spirit, that which we have undertaken to do, in full assurance that the Organization and the Member States will see • that if one party to an agreement is ready to do its part in carrying it into effect, the other party shall not lag behind.