UN General Assembly
1969

160. This applies to yet another sector of United Nations activities: the study of ways and means of increasing the efficiency of United Nations peace-keeping operations. In this important field, which was for years the scene of sharp political clashes caused by the desire of certain circles to wreck the United Nations Charter in order to use that sharpest of international weapons, United Nations peace- keeping operations, in their own narrow interests, the first signs have recently appeared—but only the first—of a move towards agreement based on observance of the relevant provisions of the Charter. It would be a good thing if they were developed. Further progress here would strengthen international security, and might prove useful. 161. These are the questions on which, in the Soviet Government’s view, the General Assembly can and should make a decisive pronouncement as a result of its consideration at this session of the problem of strengthening international security. It stands to reason that this pronouncement must be addressed both to States Members of the United Nations and