UN General Assembly
1964

112. Indeed, in viewing the current aspects of the international situation, we see how essential it is for considerations of balance and security to be applied to our difficult progress towards the desired goals of general and controlled disarmament and the diversion to peaceful and productive uses of the vast sums which are now being spent on armaments. But in the meantime the process of strengthening the authority of the United Nations and its capacity for intervention and mediation must, from now on, be synchronized and gradually intensified as we move towards disarmament. 113. It can safely be said that the best guarantee of peace lies in strengthening the United Nations. For within the United Nations, there is hope and a future for an organized international society and for the harmony among nations that we all wish to achieve. Outside the United Nations there can be only a reversion to power politics and the use of force. Within the United Nations there is the promise of co-operation in utilizing the resources and energies of all peoples for constructive ends.