UN General Assembly
1965

124. India, which is the homeland of the apostles of non-violence, a country that has become one of the champions of non-alignment, a country that has always advocated peace and made it one of the cardinal points of its international policy, must find in the principles which it has always defended and in the age-old wisdom of its people the sources of a solution worthy of India to a dispute in which India itself is involved. In any case, we earnestly beseech India and Pakistan not to fritter away the non-aligned countries' moral capital which we all share in common and which none has the right to waste to our common detriment. The way to a peaceful solution of the dispute between the two countries lies in negotiations. It is of course the duty of all men of goodwill to help bring this about but it is our duty also, I believe, to find a method of settling territorial disputes in future. My Government gave its support to a USSR proposal for the signing of an international agreement for the peaceful settlement of territorial disputes. We think that now is the time to revive this idea and to embody it in an international treaty binding on all States.