UN General Assembly
1968

9. Alas, these failures are the reflection of the chaos into which the world has fallen. And all because, disregarding the chorus of warning statements, we have persisted in following the same dangerous paths and in skirting the same precipices. The principles of the Charter are forgotten when Governments and peoples are driven by the forces of ambition, of ideology or of hatred. When denounced from this platform, sometimes by those very people who should speak about them the least, the clash of social systems and racism becomes mere pretext for rhetoric.