UN General Assembly
1965

147. In these circumstances let us consider what methods might be used to settle conflicts. Action to control, reduce and destroy the most terrifying weapons can have no real meaning unless it is buttressed by a genuine and universal determination to suppress the conflicts which break out here and there in the world. Such upheavals are doubly inhuman and injurious because they often pit the poorest countries against each other, causing them to spend their last forces on an action which, being hostile and fratricidal, is profitless. All of us, members of the third world, feel concerned for two reasons: first, because the situation entails risks for international peace and secondly, because it means, an erosion and weakening of the political and economic forces of the third world as a whole. The proliferation of such conflicts can only play into the hands of those who, for obscure reasons,’ secretly desire the perpetuation of a situation which threatens to ruin our prestige and perhaps even our future. Others see in it a convenient means of gaining a foothold amid the disorder or of experimenting on handy battlefields with weapons which, though conventional, are none the less formidable. We must put an end to this wave of disturbances, which may at any time spread and degenerate into one vast chaos in which our dearest hopes would quickly founder.