UN General Assembly
1960

169. Today, the idea of a summit conference is gaining ground, particularly so when many leaders have come to the United Nations. They are at hand here in New York. We stand for a summit conference — but what kind of a summit conference? I say in what manner, for it was the manner that was the major reason for the failure of the past summit conference. And this will be the reason for the failure of any future summit conference if we continue in the same manner. 170. So far, the summit conference is conceived in one shape, and one shape only: the participation of the "Big Four" — the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and France. Such a composition, with all due respect, is a failure. It has been a failure and will continue to be a failure. It will lead us nowhere. I venture to say that it will lead to a fiasco, in continuity and in perpetuity.