UN General Assembly
1968

84. But these ideas are particularly relevant to the need for preventive action to which my Government calls attention. For what Brazil was advancing was a new and vigorous concept of peace-keeping operations altogether different from the enforcement measures contemplated in Chapter VII of the Charter — a concept of an international effort, in no sense dominated by the larger Powers, whose objective would be to preserve peaceful conditions, in contrast to operations of a coercive character undertaken against transgressors of international order. 85. The course of international events since 1964 has only served to strengthen the arguments advanced on that occasion; we have seen all too clearly the limits upon coercive action; the world’s aggressors have learnt all too effectively how to exploit the gap in the system of international security which results from the absence of established arrangements for peace-keeping operations of a preventive character. Guyana lends its voice to the plea for this gap to be closed—at least in relation to the developing countries — and will lend its support to every reasonable proposal to this end.