UN General Assembly
1970

97. The draft declaration on strengthening international security speaks of the need to accelerate the attainment of agreement on United Nations peacekeeping operations, on the basis of strict compliance with the United Nations Charter. In this connexion we welcome the statement of Mr. Yost to the effect that peacekeeping operations should be placed on a firmer and more reliable basis. But in the formula he proposes there is, as before, a considerable omission. In his formula there is no provision by which all United Nations peacekeeping operations would be carried out strictly in accordance with the United Nations Charter and not as they were imposed during the years of the cold war. Hence the task of the Committee headed by Mr. Cuevas Cancino should be to fill this gap and to place the peacekeeping operations firmly and reliably on the stable basis of the Charter of the United Nations and not on a one-sided practice for the benefit of one restricted group of States