UN General Assembly
1952

94. It is here that this question becomes of much closer concern to the United Nations. Let there be no mistake. It is an international offence for any State even to invoke these justifications of belligerency, let alone to base international policies upon them. The offence is not that other nations negotiate agreements with Israel; the offence is that the Arab States do not themselves negotiate such agreements with Israel. The international illegality rests in the maintenance by Egypt of its boycott and blockade, not in the refusal of other governments to be marked by the infection of that boycott and blockade. The Arab policy of blockade towards Israel is something to be changed in itself, not something to be communicated to other spheres of international relations.