UN General Assembly
1958

90. The same considerations apply to the increase proposed in the number of Judges in the International Court of Justice. We must never lose sight of the words of the preamble of the Charter which set forth for us all the obligation "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained". It is today the small States of the world which must lead the struggle in the defence of respect for treaties, in an era when that principle is honoured rather in the breach. Ethiopia, as so many of the smaller States Members of this Organization, remains convinced that peace and security can only be assured through the reign of law and undeviating respect for international obligations.