UN General Assembly
1967

102. At this point I should like to stress a fact which to me seems extremely significant. Although the problem of Viet-Nam is not on our agenda, and although there are those who, from this very rostrum, have asserted that the United Nations has nothing to do with Viet-Nam, all the speakers before me have dwelt at some length on the tragic conflict that is taking place in that area. This circumstance, in my opinion, prompts at least two considerations. 103. First, it seems to reflect a unanimous conviction that the problem of Viet-Nam should be dealt with, either formally or in a de facto fashion, directly or indirectly, in this forum. Second, that the Viet-Nam conflict, by reason of its extent and intensity and the increasing toll it is taking in human life, suffering and sacrifices, represents a serious threat — perhaps the most serious of all — to the maintenance of world peace.