UN General Assembly
1959

124. Perhaps I may be permitted to express the hope that further developments will open the eyes also of the Governments of the Communist States to the fact that peaceful coexistence will benefit from agreements on arbitration, in case of controversies between States for example regarding the interpretation of agreements, the establishment of facts, the denouncing of violations of accepted principles of international law. 125. It seems obvious, however, that arbitration cannot be a universal means of solving international disputes. Many such disputes are not of a legal character but call for the application of political methods. Some disputes, although by their nature of a legal character, can be so impregnated with political explosives that legal solutions will not prove durable. But there remain large categories of disputes which could be successfully solved by legal means, if the parties would show a certain measure of good intentions.