UN General Assembly
1948

The Council had to its credit a series of important recommendations in the fields of economic and social co-operation and of human rights, all of which had not been implemented. The difficulty therefore was not with the Council, which had shown real sensitivity to many a delicate situation and had made constructive recommendations thereon; the real difficulty was with the sovereign Governments which had failed to implement social and economic recommendations made by the Council or by the General Assembly. The criticism on that point should not apply to the Council alone, but to the United Nations as a whole. There was not enough faith in the United Nations, there was not enough esprit de corps to make the recommendations of the General Assembly or of the Council sufficiently compelling. If the United Nations had sufficient moral authority to bring about the fulfilment of half the resolutions already passed by the Council, the faithfulness of the Council to its duties under the Charter would become perfectly clear.