UN General Assembly
1948

Secondly, there should be regional councils for peace and security. That idea was not new, because a subsidiary organization of the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization, had already made similar arrangements. In that way, if parts of the world enjoyed peace, then the whole world would benefit; and even if war should break out in a particular region, it would probably not spread to neighbouring regions. He prayed that the third session of the United Nations General Assembly might not be a failure, but that, on the contrary, it might settle all the pressing problems of the time, in particular, the issue of peace and war.