ABSTRACT
THE PRINCIPLE AS RESTATED IN THE DECLARATION: MERELY A STATEMENT OF THE OBVIOUS?
A member of the United States Mission to the UN who was involved in the negotiations which led to the adoption of the Friendly Relations Declaration admitted that it could be argued that the principle of good faith is self-evident, but thought that it was a useful stabilising development to have it ‘spelled out to this degree’. He reminds us that the principle is affirmed in Article 2(2) of the UN Charter but that the Declaration had clearly extended it ‘to cover the entire structure of international relations’.1
