UN General Assembly
1966

130. In this connexion, the most recent Judgment of the International Court of Justice on South West Africa is of special importance. The Court, conceived at a time when colonial law was a part of international morality, no longer corresponds to the needs of an era when the concepts of the liberation of peoples have become fundamental principles of international law. The Judgment of 18 July 1966 is inspired more by the philosophy of the nineteenth century than by the ideas which led our Assembly to adopt the resolution on decolonization. The gap between the evolution of the world and the stagnation of institutions is a serious contradiction which must be remedied.