UN General Assembly
1948

The value of recommendations founded on law lay in their objectivity and the spirit of justice which inspired them. The most effective way of restoring the prestige of the United Nations and of obtaining the greatest collaboration from States signatory to the Charter was to accept the guidance of law in the solution of all problems arising from international relationships, while not however casting aside altogether political or economic interests. There was no surer guarantee than that based upon law. The first place must be given to the principles of right and legality which governed and determined the freely accepted juridical order. Justice and the general principles of international law must inspire the solution of problems or situations submitted to the consideration of the organs set up by the United Nations Charter. That was why Uruguay had always fought for the setting up of a very broad international jurisdiction; that was why Uruguay would recommend to the competent organ of the United Nations a formula for unrestricted arbitration, thus giving proof of its desire to work for peace and international understanding