OAU and Member of the United Nations, we refuse to accept the fact that one State can occupy the territory of another by the use of force. 1 18, The United Nations is based on the proposition that war must not be a profitable enterprise. The General Assembly and the Security Council have on many occasions condemned the territorial conquest by one State of another by armed force. Right after the Israel-Arab conflict, the fifth special emergency session of the General Assembly highlighted the inadmissibility of the acquisition of terri- tory by force and called for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from all the occupied territories. 1 19. Furthermore, other organizations adopted a similar position with regard to territorial acquisitions. The Charter of the Organization of American States, signed at’Bogotil in 1948, states in article 17 that “no territorial acquisitions or special advantages obtained either by force or by other means of coercion shall be recognized”. It is in that spirit that the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member States of the Organization of American States met in the summer of 1969 to deal with a dispute between two member States of the Organization and said to the thirteenth Meeting of Consultation that they “unanimously reject the use of force to settle disputes between States members of the Organi- zation” and that “as established in article 5 [e) and 17 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, neither recognition of conquests nor occupation of territories acquired by use of force is admissible” /see S/9370 of 31 Juiy 1969, resolution IlIj . 120. Article II, paragraph 1 (c) of the Charter of the Organization of African Unity, signed in 3963, rejected the principle of any territorial conquest by the use of armed 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international law and diplomacy, specifically the condemnation of territorial conquest by force. It references various international organizations and charters, highlighting the rejection of the use of force to settle disputes between states. The text does not seem to be related to economic development, natural resources, or other specific fields.

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International trade, Humanitarian aid and relief