UN General Assembly
1986

It must, however, be emphasized that while individual terrorism is not acceptable. State terrorism is even less acceptable. The events in the Mediterranean this year as well as the foreign interventions in Central America are serious infractions of the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and threaten world stability. International relations at the end of the twentieth century cannot and must not rest on the reason of force instead of the force of reason. Such behavior is a very long step backwards, to a time when international relations were taking their first halting steps.