UN General Assembly
1964

12. Now, as all are aware, no attempted revision of the Charter has, as yet, come into force. It is, therefore, the Charter exactly as it stands which must be observed by the Organization in dealing with any problem which falls within the limits of its competence. 13. As long as this is the case, we have no alternative but to continue to perform our functions within the clearly defined framework of the existing Charter, whatever imperfections some of us believe it to have. If we fail to do so, our actions in the United Nations must be without legal sanction, and international law will cease to govern the relations between States. 14. It is my submission that the Charter has seldom been permitted to operate properly and its true worth has never yet been fairly tested. It is not to the Charter, as it is, which we should ascribe certain difficulties, but rather to the manner in which its provisions have so often been set aside and circumvented.