UN General Assembly
1948

Those principles were no less valid in the work of the General Assembly. The Assembly was the most democratic and representative organ of the United Nations. Every Member was represented in it. There was no right to any individual veto and there was no limit to the right of discussion. But the Assembly would discharge its duties properly and fulfil the role which had been contemplated for it at San Francisco only if it strove fearlessly to apply the principles of the Charter to its agenda, each item being decided on its merits and free from the evils of automatic bloc-voting, whether the bloc might be of the East or the West, of the North or the South.