UN General Assembly
1982

an end to foreign interference in its internal affairs and respect for its people's sovereign right to organize their own national life in a democratic manner without any outside interference. 46. In general terms, we condemn the claims of Powers, whether large, medium-sized or small, to arrogate to themselves the right to modify by force the regime of a neighbouring country if they judge it to be hostile. 47. A secure world of nations joined together in independence and solidarity and determined to shoulder the noble responsibility incumbent on mankind cannot, obviously, live by the anachronisms of the past and by social and political injustice. There can be no other way to satisfy the rights of peoples to national differentiation and the realization of their aspirations to freedom and progress, than by banishing all hegemonistic trends. There can be no other way to achieve the rights of every man to a life in dignity than through the triumph of fundamental freedoms. There can be no other way to redress on a global scale of all the damaging