UN General Assembly
1982

not recovered from the shock of the appalling events in Lebanon, which form a tragic climax to the escalating policy of illegality and outrage perpetrated by Israel in its relentless aggression against the Palestinian people, its annexation of occupied territories, its attack on Iraqi nuclear installations and its persistent flouting of General Assembly and Security Council resolutions. The post-war world order based on the Yalta repartition of spheres of influence, with its ensuing system of armed alliances, is no longer able to maintain even its initial precarious stability. The erosion of the nuclear superiority by one super-Power, leading to nuclear parity, ushered in a state of strategic uncertainty. Together with the challenges by the emergent nations to rigid polarization around super-Power spheres of influence, this led to an increasing resort to the use of force by dominant Powers. Therefore we cannot but agree with the frank analysis of the Secretary-General, in which he points out the reforms which are still required to transform the United Nations into a world body which effectively unites nations in the