UN General Assembly
1962

122. The foregoing remarks concern structural changes only; to survive, however, the United Nations is in need of functional reform also. We must make it possible for the Organization to attain the objectives it has chosen and to carry out successfully the ever-increasing number of tasks it is assuming. This depends first and foremost on each one of us. No text will be sufficient by itself for the purpose. There must be a collective will to co-operate applied in the principal organs of the United Nations, which must henceforward be given rational means of functioning. 123. Working methods and procedures within the Organization should be recast with a view to greater efficiency. At the time of the signing of the Charter, the United Nations had fifty-one Members; today there are 108 and it can be anticipated that with the acceleration of the process of decolonization new Members will be admitted.