UN General Assembly
1951

55. Of course, if an effective understanding of the proposals made regarding disarmament could be reached and if all peoples were unanimous in their will to arrive at a real plan for the realization of peace, the collective security system would then have as its basis universal co-operation in the defence of a common aim rather than the need for preventing new conflicts; it would be established in order to strengthen the Charter and give it life rather than to attempt to curb ambitions contrary to its purposes. Venezuela, then, is prepared to continue to co-operate in the effort for universal security in the same way as it has done in the regional security system of the Organization of American States, and it is sincerely gratified at having been a member of the Collective Measures Committee, whose work and whose report constitute, beyond any doubt, a step forward towards the ideal of establishing law and justice as the guiding principles of international relations.