UN General Assembly
1968

109. It would be highly dangerous to make admission to the United Nations depend upon some numbers, agreed to by a majority of Members, setting the low limit of size; since some interested countries could always change that limit. The figure of one million inhabitants, for example, might perhaps be found insufficient by some nation with 20 million; the figure of 20 million might be too small for another with 50 million; and again 50 million, according to the circumstances, would be too small in the eyes of a great nation with a population of 200 million. 110. Since in the end the law or relativity always takes effect, the United Nations would eventually consist only of some large nations that would settle among themselves the fate of all those who had been left out.