UN General Assembly
1972

72. But does this mean that we are utterly powerless to do anything whatsoever in this domain here and now? If, as I said, we are unable to do away speedily with the conflicts themselves, is it not within our power to check the crises they engender? Can we not find some means to take away their acuteness? Would it be too much to contemplate a kind of freeze for some types of political conflicts for limited periods of time? Recalling the United Nations noteworthy accomplishments through the declaration of the Decades in the fields of disarmament as well as of economic development, would it not be within the grasp of this Assembly to declare, for example, a '"decade of political conciliation" and devise the means of promoting it? Could we not systematize and concert all individual and collective past efforts within this Organization to such a noble task? Could we not translate such a spirit of conciliation into a system of effective co-ordination of all the various political, economic and social efforts?