UN General Assembly
1972

105. We would like to think that, at the outset of the search for an interim solution, it would be possible to identify the principles common to all the parties which are already explicitly set forth in resolution 242 (1967). We, for our part, have always attached particular importance to the twofold preliminary declaration which stresses both "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" and "the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security". 106. Is this not an established fact? If so, it would be easier to agree that the declared positions of each of the parties on matters under dispute are not ultimatums but only negotiating terms.