我们谁也不能否认，过去30年来，不利于《宪章》各项规定的政策在联合国内部和国际关系框架内导致了政治和财政两极分化。这种政策被某些具有政治、经济、军事和金融影响力的政府的自私利益所左右。首先，它们针对世界上许多国家的权利、领土完整、政治独立和自决，无视不干涉其内政的原则——以至于今天，国际关系中的普遍模式显示，一个强大的国家及其盟友毫不犹豫或不害怕因违反《联合国宪章》而产生的后果，占领其他国家的领土。它们继续使用或威胁使用军事力量侵犯任何国家的领土完整或政治独立，当然是同时实施单方面胁迫性经济措施，以使人民挨饿并击垮他们的意志。
None of us can deny that the past three decades have led, inside the United Nations and within the framework of international relations, to political and financial polarization as a result of policies inimical to the provisions of the Charter. Such policies were governed by the selfish interests of certain Governments with political, economic, military and financial influence. First and foremost, they targeted the rights, territorial integrity, political independence and self-determination of many countries in the world and disregarded non-interference in their internal affairs — to the extent that today, the prevalent pattern in international relations reveals that a powerful country and its allies occupy the land of others without hesitation or fear from the repercussions of violating the Charter of our Organization. They continue to use or threaten to use military force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, of course in tandem with imposing unilateral coercive economic measures to starve peoples and break their will.