UN General Assembly
1969

the Middle East crisis and other crises, is that the very large States will propose to the non-permanent members of the Security Council and to the States at the centre of the crisis concrete terms for fundamental agreements that will restore peace to the areas devastated by war and political strife. This, we know, is something they can do; furthermore, in our view, there is no other possibility, no alternative. 124. This is not to deny the specific responsibility of the belligerent States or of the other Members of the United Nations. I wish merely to stress the fact that the responsibilities conferred on the Security Council by all the Members of the United Nations have their natural counterpart in the obligation to support the Council’s action. 125. What we expect from the very great countries is that they should show the initiative, imagination, perseverance and authority without which we should become here a sort of tower of Babel. Today, at the time when the very great States have undertaken essential action, I wish to state that