UN General Assembly
1967

61. The draft, which is drawn up in the form of a declaration, begins by reaffirming the duty of every State to refrain in its international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. After adding that "such threat or use of force shall never be used as a means of settling international issues", it goes on to spell out a series of specific corollaries and obligations which derive automatically from the foregoing fundamental principle without limiting its generality. Since the complete text of the principles, corollaries and obligations can readily be consulted in the report which the Special Committee is to submit to the Assembly, I shall refrain from reading them out, although I consider it indispensable that they should be known to all delegations. I would merely mention here that they include the principle that: