UN General Assembly
1967

109. Another serious question confronts our Assembly: the problem of the Middle East. Not only has it been given the highest priority on the agenda, but also all the interested parties are Members of the United Nations. No one has any doubt as to the competence of our Organization, but no satisfactory solution is yet in sight. 110. The position of the Italian Government on the subject has already been fully expounded by its Prime Minister, the Hon. Aldo Moro, during the emergency special session of the Assembly last June [1530th meeting], and I will not repeat what he said on that occasion, Similarly unchanged since that time are our anguish and concern for the fate of the people and of peace in a region so close to us, a region which, being the bridge between three continents, is the most sensitive in the world. It is our fervent hope that the time which has elapsed since the cessation of hostilities has not been spent in vain.