UN General Assembly
1975

6. The aims which originally motivated its creation were all directed toward the maintenance of international peace and security, and they are still fully valid. But the same cannot be said of the methods conceived at that time for achieving those aims. The inequalities to be found among countries constantly threaten the continued existence of a very delicate balance and call for a constant reassessment of the situation and the adoption of new strategies. 7. In 1945, when 51 nations signed the Charter of the United Nations, the world population was a little over 2,000 million. With the exclusion of revolutionary China, based on an arbitrary misunderstanding of the profound political changes of our day, our Organization at that time represented only about one half of the world's inhabitants.