UN General Assembly
1973

135. Approximately a year ago, the United Nations established a committee to study methods of combating terrorism. But certain parties promptly sought to use this opportunity in a political manner, m order to enable them to combat more effectively acts of subversion directed against themselves, while, at the same time, continuing to foster terrorism whenever advantage could be gained from it. Under these circumstances, the possibility of attaining the objectives initially proposed by the Committee was doomed from the outset. In fact the Committee was unable to achieve any progress at all.