UN General Assembly
1982

turmoil can be alleviated only within a climate of co-operation, joint effort and dialogue between States and the peoples of all nations. This means that international relations must be organized democratically and it presupposes a real desire equitably to readjust relations between industrialized and third-world countries, in the context of world-wide solidarity. 294. The United Nations was created to safeguard certain ideals and principles that would guarantee international peace and security and promote the progress and united development of Member States while respecting a code of conduct whose principles are clearly defined by the Charter. For that reason in the Charter the founding fathers of the Organization formally enjoined us to practise tolerance, to live in peace in a spirit of good-neighbourliness, to reject the use of force in the settlementof conflicts and to have recourse to international institutions to promote the economic and social progress of peoples. 295. A single generation separates us from the solemn proclamation of that commitment. In view of some of the painful, indeed intolerable, situations we have just mentioned, we feel we