UN General Assembly
1961

32. Yes, the Organization has a life. And life requires growth and change. Above all, it requires that the United Nations should face the realities of today. 33. One such reality is the existence of the People's Republic of China, a nation of more than 600 million people still deprived of its rightful seat in this Organization. The principle on which the Organization was founded, the principle of the universality of membership, will remain no more than a slogan as long as China and other nations are still excluded from this international forum. As in the past, we will press for a rectification of this situation, guided in this matter by political realism and the determination to make the United Nations strong, universal, and able to fulfil its proper function.