UN General Assembly
1948

That task would be more difficult when the applications of States applying for membership were rejected. It was earnestly to be hoped, therefore, that the General Assembly, at its third regular session, would find a way to surmount the obstacles which had been set up in the Security Council, at least in the case of those applicants which obtained a legal majority in the Security Council; and at the same time that it would make recommendations in favour of the principle of universality of membership, whenever this was possible. It was unfair and unjust to disappoint sovereign States by denying them their aspiration to join the United Nations, to participate in it, and to contribute to world peace and progress. The United Nations was not a monopoly for its founders. The principles and purposes of the United Nations were defined in the Preamble to the Charter, which covered and included present and succeeding generations of mankind.