UN General Assembly
1968

132. The United Nations may not be formally seized of all the different issues involved. However, they have a direct bearing and impact on our work in this Assembly Hall and put our Organization to a grave test. By our Charter we have individually and collectively dedicated ourselves and this Organization to high ideals. We have resolved to maintain international peace and security and to develop friendly relations among nations, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. According to Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State ...”.