UN General Assembly
1981

148. In order to deceive public opinion, the Reagan Administration uses the pretext of "the struggle against international terrorism" to unleash a noisy campaign of slander against the socialist countries, the nonaligned countries and the national liberation movements. This is the well-known trick of the arsonist calling "Fire", aimed at discrediting the just struggles of peoples for their independence and the support of the socialist countries for national liberation movements. It is an attempt to exonerate the United States from blame for its acts of terrorism, such as wars of aggression, armed interventions, indiscriminate massacres of civilian populations, acts of subversion and coups d'etat, the assassination of leaders of sovereign countries and deliberate acts of military provocation, etc. terrorism the more criminal because it is perpetrated against peoples, against their right to self determination, independence and international security.