UN General Assembly
1963

113. What we ask of the colonizing Powers is something which we have already asked on several occasions. However, in view of the ill will of some and the legal fiction invoked by others, we are obliged, at the risk of repeating ourselves, to affirm the principle that, once the Charter of the United Nations has been acceded to, one has certain unavoidable obligations, including that of applying not only the letter but also the spirit of the Charter.