UN General Assembly
2006

condemns that terrible evil, as it condemns all acts of aggression or violence. We repudiate any action that undermines peace or conflicts with the noble principles and purposes of our Organization. Throughout the past six decades, the peoples of the United Nations have seen that the use of force does not solve problems; on the contrary, it often aggravates them. Peace and development are the fruit of mutual respect and the cooperation to which such respect gives rise. The peoples of the United Nations are well aware that the deterioration of peace and security is the result of insufficient international dialogue and cooperation. We know, too, that many of the setbacks — such as those in the field of disarmament and those that take the form of aggression against other people or the environment — are caused by a lack of respect among nations. These are very challenging times. Our peoples today face such situations as the persistence of long- standing international conflicts or the emergence of new tensions and threats to international peace. They