UN General Assembly
1965

44. One encouraging sign of the vigour of the United Nations as an instrument for promoting and maintaining world peace has been the unanimous resolutions of the Security Council urging two of our Member States, India and Pakistan, to put an end to the hostilities arising from the persistence of a problem which has preoccupied Asia and the world, the undoubtedly complex question of Kashmir. The executive organ of the United Nations has this time acted with authority and speed. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of other occasions when the peace of the world and the normal development of various countries was seriously endangered. Accordingly, my Government considers that it is not only the right but also the duty of the General Assembly to deliberate the act in cases of threats to the peace when the Security Council is virtually paralysed because one of the great Powers exercises its right of veto.