UN General Assembly
1969

nor a state of siege, nor emergency powers can succeed in curbing the legitimate resistance and struggle of the Czechoslovak people. It will never bow to the foreign invaders and its struggle for freedom will be strengthened and developed in every possible way and by all possible means until victory is won. 161. The Albanian people and its Government resolutely and energetically condemned, from the very first day, the Fascist-like aggression against Czechoslovakia and formally denounced the Warsaw Treaty, which has become an instrument of aggression in the hands of the new imperialist Soviet Power against the other signatories of the Treaty. We have always followed with deep sympathy the resistance of the Czechoslovak people to the odious occupation régime. The people of Albania are and will remain on the side of their Czechoslovak brothers in their legitimate struggle against foreign occupation. 162. The aggression against Czechoslovakia and its military occupation, as well as the evolution of relationships between the Soviet Union and its “allies” in this region, have revealed that the policy and action of the Soviet