UN General Assembly
1965

116. Permit me now to move on to the general world situation. The gathering storms in the present international arena seem to indicate that we are condemned to live in an age of crises, one following the other in rapid succession. Even when there is a semblance of peace, it is troubled with fears of war, hunger, ignorance and prejudice. The forces of cold war at play, both overt and covert, are deliberately geared to the achievement of ideological objectives. Such tendencies undermine the very concepts of international peace and progress through co-operation. They nullify the basic aims of peaceful world order and need to be eradicated once and for all in relations among States. 117. We cannot be blind to happenings which endanger the chances of world peace and, in the long run, the very survival of the human race. We can no longer afford to acquiesce in any challenge to peace, any threat to freedom or any attempt to sabotage international co-operation, no matter in what form such challenge is disguised or from what source it emanates.