UN General Assembly
1964

186. The financial crisis facing the United Nations presents a formidable challenge to us. The effectiveness and even the survival of the Organization seem to be threatened. The complexity of this question has been brought into clear focus, and we have sought to avoid controversial questions in the first stage of the Assembly's work. 187. We wish to urge that each Member State should uphold the principle that peace-keeping operations are one of the essential objectives of the United Nations and, therefore, the financing of such operations is the collective responsibility of all Member States. It is encouraging to observe that all Members of the United Nations have expressed their desire to strengthen the Organization. Each one of us, then, has an obligation to lend our best efforts to remove the obstacles impeding the solution of this critical and vital issue.