UN General Assembly
1969

about them. They were never in the first place put through the sieve of what is possible and not possible; what is practical and not practical. 108. My observations so far might appear to be unnecessarily querulous and in accord with the current fashion of denigrating the United Nations as an expensive white elephant the world could do without. Let me assure you that this is not my intention. It is because I sincerely believe the United Nations is indispensable for the peace and security of the world, and has such great potentialities for good that even if the present Organization were to collapse it would be necessary for mankind to erect another one, that I experience a sense of exasperation at our inability to put the existing Organization to better and more profitable use. 109. I would like to stress here that a vigorous and effective United Nations is more vital to what are described currently as the less developed countries, the LDCs, than it is to the more developed. This is not to suggest that the