UN General Assembly
1969

defeat of those who organized and took part in them. The people supported and still support the necessary measures and policy of their Government. 70. No one will succeed in diverting the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from the path of building a socialist society, the path of friendship and close co-operation with the Soviet Union and the other socialist States. Nor will this cause be promoted by acts encouraged from abroad, of incitement to uprisings in the country, or by the most subtle ideological campaigns based on pseudo-theories of some kind of “limited sovereignty” and similar concepts. It is therefore not only in the interests of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, but also in the interests of promoting friendly relations between nations, to put an end to attempts to introduce the so-called question of Czechoslovakia into this international forum. There is no such question. 71. The development of Czechoslovakia and the measures we are taking for this development are exclusively our own domestic concern. Decisions on our internal and foreign-policy affairs are taken by constitutional and government