UN General Assembly
1968

12. The formula which my Government suggests does not entail any change in the provisions of the Charter; it is simply an appeal to the super-Powers to realize with healthy realism that in this latter part of the twentieth century no State, however powerful, can claim that all disputes should be settled in accordance with its views. I repeat: we do not claim — for it would be absurd to do so — that a super-Power should allow the Security Council to impose on it solutions detrimental to its supreme interests. That would unleash war, and we have agreed that the basic aspiration of the United Nations is to maintain peace. 13. Again on the subject of the peaceful settlement of disputes, Mexico shares the view of the Secretary-General that States should endeavour to have wider recourse to the services of the International Court of Justice in dealing with problems which fall within its competence [A/7201/Add.1, para. 168].