UN General Assembly
1955

57. To attain these results, such co-operation must necessarily be based on certain simple and more or less generally accepted principles, enunciated in the United Nations Charter and recently reaffirmed in a number of international instruments, to several of which my country is also a party. These principles, such as mutual respect for independence and sovereignty, equal rights, non-intervention in the internal affairs of other countries, the duty of refraining from any aggressive practice, and so forth, are known to us all and I need not dwell on them here. They are, in fact, merely the elementary requirements of international life in our time. We firmly believe that adherence to these principles will finally transform the present pattern of international relations and gradually pave the way for more universal forms of international co-operation. Obviously, however, the attitudes and methods developed during the period of tension cannot be eliminated at short, notice. Such a result can be obtained only through protracted and patient effort.