UN General Assembly
1969

Council, in view of their special responsibilities, should meet to study ways of facilitating the implementation of resolution 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967, and should examine at the same time the measures necessary to prevent the situation from deteriorating. 81. When that proposal was accepted by our three partners, we became able to examine together in detail the different aspects of the conflict and the possibilities of settlement consistent with the spirit of the Charter and the resolutions adopted by the United Nations. 82. I thank the Secretary-General for the recent valuable lead which has enabled the four to resume their task. This must now be pursued unremittingly; to dispute or hinder it would be to assume the heavy responsibility of obstructing the only means of reaching a general, equitable and lasting settlement respecting “the inalienable right to exist as independent and sovereign States” of all the States of the Middle East, in the words of our joint communiqué of last Saturday, 20 September. Need I add that this settlement must include international measures for the preservation