Council will similarly guard against the debate ranging over areas outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations. The Security Council is concerned with international peace, not with the internal peace and political life of a Member State. Whatever be the private evaluations of the happenings inside Pakistan, whatever judgment may be made by individuals and groups of the rights and wrongs of the situation in Pakistan, there can be no valid ground for India's interference in it.
One principle is basic to the maintenance of a peaceful world order, and it is that no political, economic, strategical, social or ideological considerations may be invoked by one State to justify its interference in the internal affairs of another State any more then they can be cited as a ground for aggression, direct or indirect. We all know the many Declarations of the General Assembly which have affirmed this principle. I shall not refer to all of them here because recognition of this principle and its incorporation into the law of the United Nations is not dependent on those declarations. It is enough to refer to the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the protection of their Independence and Sovereignty adopted by the General Assembly in 1965. (General Assembly Resolution 2131(XX))
Operative paragraph 1 of that Declaration states:
“No State has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State. Consequently, armed intervention and all other forms of interference or attempted threats against the personality of the State or against its political, economic and cultural elements are condemned."
Operative paragraph 2 states:
"...the State shall organize, assist, foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive, terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State. or interfere in civil strife in another State."
Operative paragraph 4 states:
“...the practice of any form of intervention not only violates the spirit and letter of the Charter of the United Nations but also leads to the creation of situations which threaten “international peace and security."
I may recall here that India was a Member of the Committee which prepared that Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States. It is well known that India has been prominent at the United Nations for its advocacy of the principle of non-interference. What has motivated this advocacy is ill concealed, and we in Pakistan know it very well. Oblivious of the fact that Jammu and Kashmir is not, and I cannot, be recognized as part of India unless an impartial plebiscite in that State returns a verdict in favor of its accession to India. India has vainly sought to close all avenues for Pakistan giving moral and political support to the people of Jammu in their struggle for self-determination. But I shall leave that aside for the moment. What is interesting is that India's motivation has been strong enough to prevail over its relations even with those powers with whom it professes to be friendly. Speaking at the 1441" meeting of the
