UN General Assembly
1969

service of the lofty ideals for which it was established in San Francisco. 6. But I wish to make it very clear that Uruguay stands within the Organization, not outside it. I now propose to enlarge upon this statement. The policy of balance of power, which took the form of alliances and covenants, led to the First World War. 7. In the light of previous experience, the League of Nations advocated and formulated the system of the legal equality of States. Yet it failed to achieve its peace objectives because, outside and apart from the League, the same fatal system of balance of power continued in force and finally led to the most recent world war. 8. The horrors of that terrible war brought forth a new policy, which Uruguay described at the time as a potential risk to the nascent Organization established in San Francisco: unity of power to preserve peace. Unity of power implied—as events later proved—that it is effective for that purpose as long as unity exists; but when unity is broken,