UN General Assembly
1967

102. In the introduction to his annual report [A/6701/ Add.1, para. 49], the Secretary-General enunciated the following fundamental principles which could be usefully applied to the Middle East crisis: the territorial integrity of every State must be respected and the occupation by military force of the territory of one State by another cannot be condoned; every State’s right to exist must be accepted by all other States; every State is entitled to security within its own borders; the Palestine Arab refugees "have a natural right to be in their homeland and to have a future"; and there should be free and unimpeded navigation for all through international waterways according to international conventions. 103. The Liberian Government endorses these principles and feels that if they could be accepted as binding by all the parties to the conflict, in negotiations direct or indirect, and faithfully executed and guaranteed by the international community, it might open the path to a new era of peace and co-operation in the Middle East.