Appeal to the great Powers to renew their efforts to compose their differences and establish a lasting peace

III. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIRST COMMITTEE
190. Appeal to the great Powers to renew their efforts to compose their differences and establish a lasting peace

Whereas it is the essential purpose of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security and to that end it must co-ordinate its efforts to bring about by peaceful means the settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace, Whereas the United Nations should be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of this common end, Whereas the United Nations, cannot fully attain its aims so long as the recent war remains in process of liquidation and so long as all the peace treaties have not been concluded and put into force, Whereas the great Allied Powers, which bore the heaviest burden in the war and whose common sacrifice and effort were the prime cause of victory, have reaffirmed, on many solemn occasions, their determination to maintain and strengthen in the peace that unity of purpose and of action which has made possible the victory of the United Nations, Whereas the aforementioned Allied Powers, which undertook at the second Moscow Conference responsibility for drafting and concluding the peace treaties, have not been able, after three years of effort, to obtain the full realization of their high mission by building a just and lasting peace, Whereas the disagreement between the said Powers in a matter of vital importance to all the United Nations is at the present time the cause of the deepest anxiety among all the peoples of the world, and Whereas the United Nations, in the performance of its most sacred mission, is bound to afford its assistance and co-operation in the settlement of a situation the continuation of which involves grave dangers for international peace, The General Assembly

1. Recalls the declarations made at Yalta on 11 February 1945 by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in which the signatories.

"Reaffirm our faith in the principles of the Atlantic. Charter, our pledge in the Declaration by the United Nations, and our determination to build in co-operation with other peace-loving nations a world order under law, dedicated to peace, security, freedom and the general well-being of all mankind",

And proclaim that
"Only with continuing and growing co-operation and understanding among our three countries, and. among all the peace-loving nations, can the highest aspiration of humanity be realised - a secure and lasting peace which will, in the words of the Atlantic Charter ‘Afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want'";

2. Endorses these declarations and expresses its conviction that the great Allied Powers will, in their policies, conform to the spirit of the said declarations;

3. Recommends the Powers signatories to the Moscow Agreements of 24 December 1945, and the Powers which subsequently acceded thereto, to redouble their efforts, in a spirit of solidarity and mutual understanding, to secure in the briefest possible time the final settlement of the war and the conclusion of all the peace settlements;

4. Recommends the aforementioned Powers to associate with them, in the performance of such a noble task, the States which subscribed and adhered to the Washington Declaration of 1 January 1942.[1]

Hundred and fifty-fourth plenary meeting,
3 November 1948.  

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[1] See Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946-1947, page 1.