UN General Assembly
1964

202. At its nineteenth session the General Assembly faces a number of extremely important tasks. At the same time, the United Nations is on the threshold of its twentieth anniversary. 203. The peoples of the United Nations, who bore on their shoulders the burden of the war against facism and who in the final days of the war laid the foundations of a new Organization, set themselves a truly great aim — nothing less that "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our life time has brought Untold sorrow to mankind ...". 204. At the same time they proclaimed their profound "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small", and promised "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom".