...aggression in the Thirteen-Power proposal. Article 3 emphasized that self-defence could be exercised only against armed attacks by another State. Those 13 powers included Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Iran, Madagascar, Mexico, Spain, Uganda, Uruguay and Yugoslavia. And note that those 13 states took and even more restrictive approach to self-defense than we are talking about here -- they did not even accept there was a right of self-defense against indirect aggression, where an NSA's armed attack was attributable to a state!
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