UN General Assembly
1963

97. But having said all this, it is well that we should recognize that the United Nations now lives under a shadow —the shadow of financial bankruptcy. For a variety of reasons, some Member States of our Organization have not found it possible to pay their allotted share of the costs of peace-keeping operations. Our Organization has therefore been reduced to borrowing to meet current expenditure, and is having to consider even less dignified means of raising funds. This is a very clear danger signal, and we trust that a universally acceptable solution to this problem will be found in the near future; for it would be a tragic paradox if what we hope is a major "détente" in the cold war were to be accompanied by the demise of the United Nations for lack of what, by the international standards of today, amounts to an insignificant sum of money.