UN General Assembly
1968

100. I have heard some representatives of Member States speak, from this rostrum, about the right of Israel to existence and survival. Not all of them, I must say with sorrow, evinced equal concern for the right of the Palestinian people to existence and survival. Have they forgotten that we all belong to an Organization the very first words of whose Charter proclaim that it speaks for peoples, and the very first Article of whose Charter, as well as Article 55, asserts that fulfilment of the purposes of the United Nations demands “respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples"? If, then, in this era of the United Nations, a State forces its way into being at the expense of a given people, will it be congruent with the Charter for Member States to be so preoccupied with the “right” of that State to survival as to ignore the right of the people in question to existence?