UN General Assembly
1968

41. We are not concerned with apportioning blame, but humanity owes it to itself to see that the long and tragic shadow that has stretched across that unhappy country for over a generation does not become permanent, as it threatens to do, but is lifted so that the peoples of Viet-Nam, North and South, can still find it possible to have the freedom to pursue their own destiny in their own way. To us this is no indulgence of a pious hope or a pipe dream. We live too close to Viet-Nam to let the canker that seems to have eaten into its being fester and corrode its soul and remain for ever a historical precedent for the ineffectiveness of the United Nations.