UN General Assembly
1970

80. To this end it is necessary for the big Powers to abstain from participating in the conflict for the purpose of fostering their own political or strategic interests. The Near East is too explosive a field in which to play the game of spheres of influence. If the Arab Israeli conflict is isolated from the machinations of the great Powers to tip the balance of world peace in their favor it will be easier to get the parties to the conflict to sit at the conference table and put an end to mutual hostilities, and to attain a peace which will be the beginning of great cooperation, and even of certain forms of economic integration, among the peoples who live in the Near East.