UN General Assembly
1964

85. The concept of peaceful coexistence has now been accepted by an overwhelming majority, if unfortunately not all, of the governments of the world. Peaceful coexistence was the central theme of the Declaration of the Second Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries held at Cairo in October 1964. The Conference declared its deep conviction that in the present circumstances mankind must regard this as the only means of strengthening world peace and has further suggested that the General Assembly of the United Nations should adopt, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations, a declaration on the principles of peaceful coexistence. It was their hope that such a code supported by the whole world would result in the consolidation of peace and security.