UN General Assembly
1966

185. All the difficulties encountered in one part of the world or another had direct repercussions on the United Nations, In Europe, the cold war between East and West had far-reaching effects on the life of the Organization. The European representation within this Assembly testifies to that fact. In Asia, the Chinese revolution and the Korean war have profoundly influenced our Organization, as is also reflected in its present composition. We need not even mention the Viet-Namese war, which is the real source of the crisis through which the United Nations is passing. In Africa, the decolonization initiated in the early 1960's has also shaken the United Nations, to the extent of Jeopardizing its very existence. We need only recall the crisis in the Congo in which the Organization was directly involved and which had financial, and above all political, consequences that were at the root of last year's crisis.