UN General Assembly
1954

64. Meanwhile, to safeguard the international community — one of the basic purposes of the United Nations — Cuba, like other States, is anxious to strengthen our system of collective security as a means of enforcing respect for the law of the Organization should there be any attempt to violate it. The need to revise and strengthen the collective security system was clearly shown when the organ of the United Nations upon which the Charter places primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace proved incapable of fulfilling its function. 65. The resolution “Uniting for Peace” [377 (V)] has added a vital element towards the effective operation of the collective security system in that it confers upon the General Assembly, the representative organ of the United Nations, the power to deal with cases in which the Security Council has been unable to discharge the responsibilities incumbent upon it under the Charter.