UN General Assembly
1957

116. The organizers of the provocation with regard to Syria are alleging ever more noisily that the Soviet Union has dangerous plans concerning the Near and Middle East. They see danger in the fact that the USSR is opposed to the subjection of the countries of the Near and Middle East to foreign dictation, that it is opposed to foreign intervention in the affairs of those States and that it is in favour of the development and strengthening of their independence. It would appear, according to Mr. Dulles, that the Arab countries' struggle for liberation from all foreign dependence and their refusal to submit to orders from outside constitute "extreme nationalistic ambitions". We, however, consider not only that there is nothing extreme about this but also that the desire to preserve its national independence is the indisputable and inalienable right of every people and that this desire is in full conformity with the solemn principles of the United Nations.