UN General Assembly
1966

112. Unfortunately, many of our countries are called upon to face their international responsibilities in conditions of regional tension. The situation in the Middle East has not substantially changed this year. Behind the armistice frontiers established by agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbours in 1949, the national life of sovereign States has become crystallized in an increasingly stable mould. There is some evidence that thoughtful minds in the Middle East are becoming sceptical about threats to change the existing territorial and political structure by armed force. Such threats, and the policies concerted to support them, offend the spirit and letter of the United Nations Charter, They violate bilateral agreements freely negotiated and solemnly signed. They undermine the central principles of international civility, and they have no chance; of being carried into effect, for they encounter insuperable obstacles in our country's will and capacity to defend itself, as well as in the opposition of the world community to the alteration by aggressive force of legally established and internationally recognized situations.