UN General Assembly
1965

30. I need not remind delegates of the examples in history where the same considerations led to the creation of separate States owing to divergent identities and incompatible aspirations of different peoples in one and the same State. There maybe other solutions, and all constructive attempts to make adjustments to suit particular circumstances should therefore be viewed with understanding. 31. Simply to ignore the separate identities of all peoples, and all the rights which are inherent in such identities, provides precisely those opportunities which are so readily and effectively exploited by others who, for motives of their own, invoke the right of self-determination in order to create dissensions and internal conflicts. 32. But what is more, nations cannot against their will be forced by foreign intervention to share a single statehood. History provides us with recent examples of how constitutional unions or federations, which had been artificially created and were therefore not the product of evolution and the free will of the peoples concerned, have collapsed.