UN General Assembly
1978

192. That is why we requested the Security Council not to hold a debate when it convened its 2089th meeting on 6 October 1978, to call for an immediate ceasefire, The resolution proposed was adopted with unprecedented and unparalleled unanimity. In this same spirit, we now restate that this is not the time for the settlement of accounts or discussions. 193. Suffice, to say, as an end to long-standing controversies, that .emphasis must be placed today on the necessity of allowing the Lebanese Army to perform-its national role wherever conditions are such that "deterrence" has been transformed into "repression". In the words of President Sarkis, we view this army as being composed of the elements of the homeland; as a whole and, for the homeland as a whole, thus depriving any faction whatever of any pretext for taking up-arms illegally and enabling us to relieve Arab and international forces of their responsibility to safeguard peace and security in our territory." [Ibid.]