UN General Assembly
1956

149. The other argument, no less surprising or spurious, concerns the alleged difference in the proposed treatment of the “democracies,” on the one hand, and the “dictatorships” on the other. In urging the need for equal treatment, this argument at least has the merit of acknowledging some resemblance between the misdeeds it seeks to compare. Secondly, this argument makes much of the fact that the parties concerned deigned to consent to a cease-fire. However, the invading forces are still on Egyptian soil. Thirdly, this argument clearly reveals the arbitrary nature of such distinctions, because aggression cannot be regarded as less reprehensible simply because it has been committed by one or more countries with a “democratic regime”.