UN General Assembly
1982

and common responsibility to see to it that this trend is reversed and that co-operation among States resumes its rightful place in international relations. 43. This session of the General Assembly owes much to the Secretary-General for the way in which he has put before us the central problem of the Organiza¬tion's capacity to keep the peace and to serve as a forum for negotiations. I fully share his anxiety and his disappointment about the inability of the United Nations to live up to the hopes the peoples of this world placed in it at its inception. I welcome his report on the work of the Organization as an important signal to the international community and as a challenge to us all. We, for our part, will do our utmost to help him in his efforts to improve the credibility and the effectiveness of the Organization. 44. Two objectives which are fundamental to our mutual relations would, if properly pursued, make the world a better place to live in for everyone. They are complementary and are