UN General Assembly
1971

126. My delegation has raised its voice repeatedly in this Assembly, as we do again, in calling for a bold and imaginative approach to the question of peacekeeping for arrangements that at the very least can be relied upon to preserve the peace in advance of conflict. Preventive peacekeeping operations do not raise issues of the same complexity as do peace enforcement measures undertaken after the peace has been transgressed; but they can deter transgression. The right so to guarantee the peace of the world by preventing its violation can no longer be denied this Organization if international security is to be preserved. 127. If it continues to be so denied at the instance of the major Powers, is it not time that a system of collective security be agreed upon by those Member States not inhibited by considerations of power based upon a system of preventive peacekeeping administered on their behalf, and without the involvement of nonparticipating States, through this Organization? 128. My delegation, however, shares the view expressed in the SecretaryGeneral's report that it is surely