UN General Assembly
1965

87. The function of the Assembly is nothing less than to determine and define the political and legal scope of those propositions on which the very structure of the United Nations is based in the light of the highly important changes that have occurred in international society since the war. These paramount principles are not only the corner-stone of the Charter but also of all international law. If properly formulated, they would greatly help to ease and clarify relations between States and thus to strengthen peace. 88. The prohibition of the use of force, the peaceful settlement of disputes, non-intervention, the legal equality of States and free self-determination of peoples are and always have been guiding principles of Mexico's foreign policy. They have been so not because we arrived at them by a logical process, but because our history made them so. We are, therefore, in favour of a formulation which will strengthen them by its clarity and simplicity and we are resolutely opposed to anything which restricts or weakens them.