UN General Assembly
1958

34. We wish also to say that the Cyprus question, in the eastern Mediterranean, is a cause of anxiety to all the countries in the area. That is why Libya, which is bound by ties of friendship, co-operation and confidence to the three parties concerned in that thorny issue, whole-heartedly hopes that the problem will be settled in accordance with the principles of the United Nations, taking into account the methods of peaceful settlement made available to Member States by the Charter. 35. Libya is deeply anxious that international peace and security should rest on a solid basis of friendship, mutual respect and co-operation and that those principles should be adopted as permanent procedures in the relations between Members of the United Nations. It therefore considers that the underlying causes of dispute between States and the regions in which such latent causes exist should be the continuous concern of the United Nations, which should seek all appropriate means to eliminate those potential causes of conflict.