UN General Assembly
1965

140. Colombia has always sided in the United Nations with those who base their position on this general criterion, and will continue at the present session to remain faithful to the commitment imposed by that tradition. It has upheld that criterion ever since its representative at San Francisco, Mr. Alberto Lleras, a former President of the Republic, stood almost alone in opposing the veto, ever since another Colombian, Mr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, in his capacity as provisional President of the first session of the General Assembly, defined the role of the Assembly, and ever since its representative at that first session, another former President of the Republic, Mr. Alfonso Lopez, predicted among other things that the United Nations is an organism which, as events develop, will take shape and assume functions beyond the anticipations of the Charter.