UN General Assembly
1967

(e) To crown all this, the firm conviction that it is possible to create a united world provided all States truly desire to work towards national, regional and continental integration, since such a broadening of interests is calculated to bring about true world solidarity. This conviction spells the reason why we belong to various regional and interregional organizations. 93. We believe that it was with this end in mind that the world created the United Nations. In setting it up and becoming part of it, we have all entered into a solemn commitment to live together in peace and brotherhood. Furthermore, a variety of wonderful discoveries have made it possible to endow our world with countless facilities for comfort and well-being; we had the impression that we had only to take advantage of all these things peacefully in order to live somewhat more happily. But by a strange logic, alas, we have been fighting each other for more than twenty years; more than fifty wars have disrupted and continue to disrupt the entire world. It is bitterly disappointing.