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  1. “The Foreign Ministers of the non-aligned countries, meeting in Georgetown in August of this year, recognized that "an impediment in the way of the effectiveness of the United Nations is great power tendency to ... bypass the United Nations in dealing with problems of vital importance" and declared that "this tendency must be resisted". 102. Referring to the seating last year of the lawful representatives of the great Republic of China, Mr.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  2. “The Organization must seriously and urgently consider how to regain its authority and its effectiveness. 101. Attempts to depoliticize the United Nations have been detected for some time, especially since the ranks of the third-world countries have been further strengthened by the emancipation of our sister African and Asian States and their admission to the Organization as full Members. Some of .the more powerful States have shown their impatience and displeasure with certain of the political decisions and resolutions adopted by the United Nations. The view has been expressed that the United Nations should deal only with less ambitious matters.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  3. “Some States have found themselves in need of it in the past; some have cause to seek it now; others may well need it in the future. To block this collective action and to flout the authority of the Organization is to direct a most serious blow against all of us. Do we have to be reminded of this basic and obvious principle? 100. The facts show, however, that our collective search for justice and peace is often sabotaged and frustrated. Important resolutions in this Assembly and other United Nations bodies are ignored. The effectiveness of the Organization itself is scoffed at and doubted. Our Organization seems at certain times to be surrendering to the rule of force in relations between nations. Indeed the principles and purposes of the Charter, the raison d'etre of our Organization, unfortunately now need to be reasserted.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  4. “This annual general debate should show that all Member countries have seriously tried to live by the Charter and have not violated its principles and purposes. 99. The primary purpose of the United Nations, to use the Charter's words, is: "To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace." The Charter, furthermore, stipulates that Member States should unite their efforts in order to fulfill that primary purpose. Collective action, according to the Charter, is the main guarantee of international justice and peace. SuperPowers may not need such protection. The rest of us do.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  5. “We again pledge to co-operate with him whole-heartedly, as we did with his well-remembered and respected predecessor, U Thant. 98. This annual general debate in our Assembly is, or should be, a time for a serious survey of the international actions of all Member States during the preceding year. As sovereign States, we have committed ourselves to the United Nations Charter and in doing so have willingly agreed to yield a portion of our sovereignty in order to set up this community of nations. We believe that, while each one of the Foreign Ministers is responsible before the proper organs of his country for the conduct of its foreign policy, he is also answerable to this Organization.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)

  6. “Mr. President, I should like to join my colleagues--the 115 of them who have spoken so far-in congratulating you on your election to the presidency. Under your guidance the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly has been carrying out its work-and will, I am sure, continue to carry it out with seriousness and the utmost efficiency. Allow me also from this rostrum to convey our warmest greetings to your predecessor, Mr. Adam Malik, the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, and once again to welcome our Secretary-General. It is less than a year since the then Ambassador Kurt Waldheim in this very hall took the solemn oath pledging loyalty to the Charter of the United Nations [2031st meeting]. I again wish him success.”

    1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)