UN General Assembly
1967

45. It is perhaps strange that this year, for the first time in many years, we are deprived of the pleasant privilege which has been ours in the past of welcoming new States as Members of the family of the United Nations. We are pleased to note, however, that this does not imply that we have reached the barren years and that the emergence of newly independent nations in the world today has ceased, but merely that the period of gestation has lengthened and that in due course we may hope to be in a position to welcome into our midst several more Member States which will by this time next year have gained their independence from the yoke of colonialism.