UN General Assembly
1960

117. The second problem is the question of Oman which lies on the eastern fringes of the Arabian Peninsula. This problem has been on our minds for a number of years. Its inclusion on the agenda has been postponed one year after another through the intervention of friends. The people of Oman are fighting for their independence, and the British are sparing no effort to suppress this cause of liberty with guns, tanks and let aircraft spitting fire on defenceless villages and towns. Should friendly intervention prove unable to persuade the British, we shall have no alternative but to invoke the intervention of the United Nations.