UN General Assembly
1982

provisions of the resolutions adopted, especially those adopted unanimously, are in our opinion most often and most directly responsible for the failure of United Nations action. 107. Even though it was signed 37 years ago, the Charter still provides means for prompt and effective action in order both to prevent international crises from arising-before situations have crystallized, sometimes irreversibly-and to ensure the rapid return to a state of normalcy in the areas concerned. 108. It is therefore not outside but fully within the Charter that the study I just mentioned would seek ways of restoring active vitality and decisive effectiveness to the Organization. Such a conscientious analysis could, in our opinion, give rise to a more binding system of collective security, the most solid foundations of which would be constituted by greater understanding among Member States in general and, in particular, those with seats on the Security Council. 109. In fact, only the United Nations, constituted and consolidated around an ethical and normative system of peaceful and civilized international coexistence, can point out the difficult but