UN General Assembly
1973

247. Not all of the hopes and aspirations that my delegation and many other delegations expressed at the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly have materialized as speedily and effectively as those in regard to those new Members-least of all in the Middle East. In fact the situation in that area, so critical to world peace and to the efficacy and credibility of this noble Organization, has only worsened in the course of the past year. Israeli intransigence has only further hardened this year, as it has every year since the 1967 Zionist aggression against three States Members of the United Nations. Israeli aggression and use of violence against Arab States in total defiance of our Charter, and of all international laws and standards of behaviour that are enjoined upon Members of this Organization, have in the course of the past year only e/.acerbated