UN General Assembly
1967

81. We must admit once again that the international political situation has deteriorated during the past year. Instead of decreasing, the dangers to world peace have increased considerably: the United States continues to escalate its aggression in Viet-Nam; Israel too, committed aggression against the Arab people last summer, the United States is aggravating the situation in the Caribbean area and hotbeds of conflict and trouble have been created in Africa. This march of events is dangerous for the freedom and security of peoples and for the independence and sovereignty of States. In this climate of ever-increasing tension and of open or latent conflict, some States are more and more frequently resorting to violence and intimidation in their relations with other States and are spurning more and more the principles of international law which mankind has elaborated in the course of its long and often painful history.