UN General Assembly
1968

7. If we start enumerating examples which run counter to the tide for peace, we cannot help thinking of what happened in Czechoslovakia last August. We recall that a further relaxation in international tension and the strengthening of mutual trust among nations had been expected to come about as a result of the accumulated efforts of many nations. This expectation, however, suffered a severe set-back because of the recent events, and our disillusionment was profound. 8. This military intervention, though unaccompanied by large-scale bloodshed, was indisputably an act incompatible with the spirit and the letter of the United Nations Charter. Japan appeals for the earliest withdrawal of the armed forces involved and the attainment of a genuinely peaceful and amicable settlement of the grave situation.