UN General Assembly
1957

98. I have said that the stand taken by the United Nations on the question of disarmament is a serious test of its effectiveness. The position it takes with regard to the aspirations of peoples to shape their own national life, in freedom and independence, is also a test of its loyalty to the principles of the Charter. This is the issue which so clearly exposes the contradiction between the principles of the Charter and the policies of certain States which seek to seize the economic resources and interfere in the domestic affairs of countries which have cast off the colonial yoke and intend to shape their own destinies freely.