UN General Assembly
1967

158. The United Nations should make it clear that it will not recognize territorial claims based on, or advantages gained by, the recent war. In this connexion it cannot be emphasized too strongly that the international status of Jerusalem must be respected, and that no recognition should be given to any unilateral act to change that status. 159. In the view of my Government, no accommodation could he realistic in the Middle East unless the right of Israel to a national existence were respected in accordance with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. A mutual renunciation of all claims of rights of belligerency, as indeed of all hostile and belligerent acts, is the first obligation devolving upon all States living in the Middle East. Only then will their relations conform with the normal characteristics underlying the relations of all the other Member States of the United Nations with one another.