UN General Assembly
1968

29. Those are the facts, and they cannot be changed by anti-facts manufactured in Moscow. There was no attempt from the West to foment a counter-revolution. If there were signs of a desire for a little breath of freedom in Czechoslovakia, that desire arose not from any Western plot but simply from the nature of man. Nor was there an invitation or request from any Czechoslovak authority for armed forces of the Warsaw Pact to enter the country and render so-called “fraternal assistance”. I doubt that any- body in this hall believes that there was such an invitation.