UN General Assembly
1978

12. Over the years of suffering and humiliation each of us tried to maintain our hope. We Comorians inside the country and those living outside, patiently combined our efforts to put an end to that yoke of oppression. It is necessary to have lived as we have through moments of painful distress to understand the relief of the entire Comorian people, its explosion of joy, on recovering its freedom, and its spontaneous acceptance of the changes which occurred on 13 May 1978.