UN General Assembly
1965

24. However, we all saw during the nineteenth session of the General Assembly, how this world body ground to a jerky halt, because of conflicting views among its Members regarding the interpretation of some provisions of the Charter. That the Organization was more and more becoming an arena of the East-West "cold war" is obvious enough; but we believe that there was something more to the deadlock. There was a constitutional hitch which suggested that the Charter should be reviewed if the machinery is to run more smoothly. Whilst we accept the principle that the functions of the Security Council and the General Assembly are to be regarded as complementary rather than contradictory, we feel that the respective areas of operation must be more clearly defined. It is with this in view that we suggest that matters of paramount importance to international peace and security and those pertaining to peace-keeping should be referred by the Security Council to the General Assembly for ratification by a two-thirds majority.