UN General Assembly
1969

seesaw politics and to keep away from the bipolarity dividing the world into two blocs. Only by doing so can we avoid the familiar theory of limited sovereignty which is invoked to shore up some sort of ideological system. 111. We in the Republic of the Ivory Coast believe in the future of the United Nations. We believe in the principle of collective security, of international brotherhood; and our attitude can be explained only by our desire to help the United Nations as best we can to fulfil our common pledge to save future generations, on all continents and in all countries, from the scourge of general or local war. 112. To conclude, I repeat again that the silence of some influential Members about the tragedy in western Africa makes me anxious. 113. One of our illustrious and eminent colleagues, who devoted his whole life to supporting the United Nations and fell in that struggle, the late Professor Belaunde, said with characteristic humour: “The United Nations is a body in which something is