UN General Assembly
1964

92. The peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and in the Congo were in fact the first experiments in what was then a new experience. But history does not stand still, much less turn back, and whatever the balance of these operations may have been — and my delegation considers it, in the last analysis, a very favourable balance — it is now difficult to imagine the United Nations abandoning an activity which, as we have perhaps realized recently, may constitute its very raison d'être.