UN General Assembly
1973

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims". Thus our elders express themselves in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, which was signed on 26 June 1945. 103. It is true that there is many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. And this may continue to be so as long as nations remain what they are.