UN General Assembly
1982

dangers born of a deep-seated international economic malaise, with threatening storm-clouds resulting from the dangerous arms race, above all: from the cruelty and callousness which comes from man's apparent inhumanity to his brother and his neighbour, which threaten to engulf the world and annihilate us and our vaunted civilization. Exactly one year ago, in my address to the Assembly at the 33rd meeting of the thirty-sixth session, I expressed dismay, as did other delegations, frightening state of international relations. Today, 12 months later, this session is being held with the global situation not less but more alarming than ever. 90. Today the United Nations has become, in more ways than one, mankind's hope for survival and social advancement. The Organization must not only channel and accelerate the search for peace but also preside over the ushering in of a world economic ordering of resources which will allow the poor and the weak to live, not merely survive. But, in addition, the Organization, by the very ideals enshrined in the Charter, by its noble concept of economic and social