UN General Assembly
1956

81. The southern point of the Iberian peninsula presents an example of one of those anachronistic survivals which, it is hardly necessary to say, has engaged the painful attention of our country. With the disappearance of all the ostensible military reasons which were invoked to justify a usurpation of sovereignty in flagrant violation of international law, even the crudest realism would not serve to excuse its persistence today. The Spanish Government, deeply concerned with international peace and the general equilibrium as well as with its own inalienable rights, hopes that the juridical sense of the other party will help to solve this standing dispute bilaterally, and that it will not have to seek in the United Nations the moral and legal support provided by the provisions of the Charter.