UN General Assembly
1968

164. One of the conclusions which can be drawn is that the United Nations must be strengthened in every way. If it is to represent fully the essential unity of mankind, the goal of universality of membership must be actively pursued, and, in particular, the doors of the Organization should be opened to the People’s Republic of China. 165. Even though our recognition of the fact that we all belong together and must therefore keep together is incomplete and in no way measures up to the degree of factual interdependence, we can, nevertheless, point to certain hopeful signs. It seems, at last, to be understood by people everywhere that disarmament is a vital issue. Public opinion has begun to realize that the frantic arms race does not increase security and that the precise opposite is true. All Governments must nowadays take this opinion into account.