UN General Assembly
1957

125. In this connexion, reference has been made by one or two delegations to a fact which I might us well mention here. It concerns the existence of groups within the United Nations. I believe that it was the Secretary-General who said that it was not the United Nations that had created the renaissance of Asia. The United Nations simply reflects the renaissance of Asia. The United Nations did not perform a creative act in bringing about the independence of those countries. Only those countries that have become independent are here. I entirely agree with the representative of France in thinking that "groupism" is a very bad thing in community life, whether in a country or in the world as a whole. It would develop the disease which the Greeks used to call stasis — in this case a rancorous, prejudicial form of war. We on our side have no desire to cut this Assembly into groups.