UN General Assembly
1965

137. This Organization must recognize that States always have had, and always will have, territorial disputes. These can no more be eliminated than can disputes about land in private law. The intelligent and realistic way of dealing with these problems is to provide adequate machinery for their peaceful solution and to outlaw any attempt to solve them by the use of force. There are probably few States more acutely affected by territorial problems than the Somali Republic. Those problems are derived from the policies of certain Member States in which they can have little pride. This Assembly itself shirked its responsibilities in endorsing the independence of the Somali Republic without solving the territorial problem which the Assembly must have known would cause endless trouble. The Somali people are tired of asking for some justice in this world, and they are tired of the burdens which now face them. But I would not wish this Assembly to be under any misapprehension. Amidst all our troubles, the Somali people will never cease their quest for justice, and by "justice" we mean simply the right of our people to be united under a Government of their own choice; in short, the right of self-determination.