UN General Assembly
1957

144. And what shall we say of the mode rating influence of the small and medium-sized countries in the frequent controversies that have divided the permanent members of the Security Council; of their good offices- friendly, disinterested and persistent — that have frequently permitted the great Powers, without loss of face, to get out of the difficult or untenable positions in which their rigidity or intransigence had placed them? 145. In truth, it can be said that the small and medium-sized countries have given more than they have received. We do not believe, therefore, that we should speak of "responsible" and "irresponsible" nations, but that we should rather try to clarify, constructively and not in a spirit of sterile criticism, the shortcomings that have existed and can exist in the discharge by the great Powers of the special duties implicit in their greater international responsibility for the realization of the purposes of the United Nations.