UN General Assembly
1964

201. The Australian position has been to join in regional arrangements for mutual defence and to maintain our own forces in order to meet any danger that directly threatens us. We can appreciate, however, that this method of preparing to meet an emergency may not work in the case of newly independent countries, which have limited forces of their own and which are unwilling to align themselves with allies in regional arrangements, but which nevertheless do become involved in factional strife or do suffer attack from their neighbours, I can appreciate the reasons why such countries would prefer to see their emergency defence undertaken by an international force rather than by any single great Power, but I suggest that such nations have to recognize that they cannot have total independence, to the point of excluding any form of outside aid, and at the same time hope to have total security.