UN General Assembly
1953

14. These practices or tendencies in the General Assembly are described at times as being realistic. In San Francisco, however, not only was an ideal born but an international treaty was concluded, an organized cooperative international body was shaped and instituted. The Charter, born of stern realities, is not a set of idealistic principles far from reality; it is a set of mutual obligations assumed. It was not drawn up in order to acknowledge norms of behaviour to which people can aspire but to establish standards of international conduct which Member States should actually follow in good faith and practice.