UN General Assembly
1980

221. In those circumstances the People's Republic of Benin, faithful to its principles in questions of relations among peoples and States—principles that are, incidentally, none other than those proclaimed by the United Nations— cannot give its blessing to agreements from which the parties primarily concerned have been excluded, that is, the Palestinian people and their sole and authentic representative, the PLO. Today, when it is unanimously conceded that no lasting solution can be found in the Middle East without a just and equitable settlement of the Palestinian question, refusing to negotiate with the PLO means refusing peace. 222. Furthermore, demagogically to make use of blackmail based on anti-Semitism in order to feed certain guilt complexes, cannot divert us from the fight against the Zionist impostor; it cannot possibly give us a guilty conscience. For nothing authorizes the Zionists to exact from the Palestinians the debt of blood, the debt of collective massacre and planned genocide, for which the Palestinians were not responsible and in which they played no part.