UN General Assembly
1964

51. The United Nations is confronted with these problems in the year 1965, and it has sufficient experience and resources to consider them with the interests of broad international co-operation in mind. We do not think that the chronic inertia and creeping paralysis of which we hear so much are characteristic of this Organization. Those who value the United Nations in spite of its weaknesses and shortcomings, which they are not afraid to subject to honest criticism, are convinced that it still possesses the vitality and the dynamic force envisaged for it in its Charter. In its less than twenty years of existence, the United Nations has changed not only in size but in nature. The 115 States now represented in the United Nations are evidence of far more than a simple arithmetical increase in the Organization’s membership from the time of its initial San Francisco period.