UN General Assembly
1985

It is paradoxical that in an increasingly interdependent world that needs international co-operation there is ever more insistent talk about the alleged crisis of multilateral channels and the United Nations is criticized, at times ruthlessly. This anniversary provides a good opportunity for analyzing the causes of the crisis and diagnosing which are due to a lack of will and which to structural deficiencies, so as to be able to introduce suitable remedies and necessary reforms. In order to make the principles of the Charter fully applicable the Organization would have had to be provided with much more comprehensive means. Instead, the Organization's capacity for action was strictly limited. This disproportion between objectives and the means given to the Organization is one of the constant sources of disenchantment and frustration among the world' public.