UN General Assembly
1962

107. In considering these principles, we must start from the basic fact that the international community has not yet succeeded in advancing beyond the stage of the coexistence of many sovereign national States. If such is the present structure of the world community — and it always seems to have been — that is because it is to some extent inherent in the nature of things and in the plan of creation; consequently, in their relations with each other, these natural entities must possess more or less the same .rights as those held by individuals in their mutual relations within their own communities.