UN General Assembly
1949

191. The fact that such a savage and inveterate conflict could have been brought to an end and healed by methods of pacific settlement could not be without significance for the treatment of other conflicts which had so far baffled the Organization. The mediation which had brought about the armistice had been patient, impartial, detached from the predilections of individual Governments and assiduously addressed to the maintenance of contact between the parties. It might be of some value for the General Assembly to explore whether such principles of conciliation under neutral and mutually accepted auspices might not be applied anew during the current session towards tire solution of such acute problems as the relations between the States of the Balkans and the overriding issue of atomic control. 192. Among the residual problems of the Palestine conflict, two were still in the forefront of international interest.