He held that "[t]he protection offered by copyright cannot be leveraged to include protection of economic interests that are only tangentially related to the copyrighted work."

Such neutralisation should provide for 'the elimination of military blocs and foreign military bases, the withdrawal of foreign armed forces, the respect for sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the countries of the region, refraining from acts threatening the security of neighbours, the protection of economic interests against the interference of foreign monopolies'.