UN General Assembly
1962

83. In this connexion, in reference to the spirit of allegiance that should lead the international civil servants in their actions, the late Dag Hammarskjold developed the thesis that a civil servant, although owing allegiance to his own opinions or ideals, can, regardless of them, as a man of integrity "readily act in all exclusively international spirit in the service of the Organization". This is certainly the conduct that would be expected and even demanded from the international civil servant. But we would go a step further. We feel that in this world of rapid progress the need of developing a United Nations conscience is already with us. There should be a deeper dedication to the United Nations from which the actions of the international civil servant will be guided. Through that development there would be allegiance to the United Nations not from a mere sense of duty but as the outcome of a belief in the ideal of the United Nations and dedication to its purposes. The spirit of the international civil servant will then find its fuller and more i effective realization in the harmony, and not the mere compromise, between his ideals and his duties. We believe the time has come when the broader concepts of paramount allegiance to humanity will become a reality.