UN General Assembly
1956

10. Today, that problem has come before the United Nations, in a clear and unmistakable form, as regards events in Europe and in Africa. We in the African-Asian group cannot but remain firmly united in our defence of those principles and in our resolve to ensure that they shall be respected throughout the world. It was in this sense that at the London Conference of the summer of 1956 the Middle Eastern States, including Ethiopia, joined with the Scandinavian countries in insisting that no solution of the Suez crisis could be found except one fully respecting the sovereignty and — to use the Charter’s language in Article 2, paragraph 4 — “the territorial integrity” of Egypt, reached with the full consent of Egypt, excluding all use of force or threat of force and with and within the United Nations itself.