UN General Assembly
1955

32. May I say here, with great respect, since this question seems to have loomed large in our discussions, that the idea of a review of the Charter has not come into our consciousness, and been placed on our agenda, because in this particular year any developments, either in the Organization or in the Charter, or in the inadequacy of the Charter, have called for it. If there are inadequacies, they have been there all these years. It has arisen because in Chapter XVIII there are two articles which refer to the review of the Charter and, if I may say so, there appears to be considerable misunderstanding in this matter. All the Charter says, in paragraph 1 of Article 109, is that “a general conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote...” under certain conditions, one of which being the agreement of seven members of the Security Council.