UN General Assembly
1982

solution to that conflict, in accordance with the resolutions of the United Nations. On Korea, we affirm the necessity of putting an end to the dispute between the two parts of the peninsula and of reaching a peaceful solution of the problem, on a democratic basis, acceptable to both parties. An encouraging environment should be provided for Korean unity through the withdrawal of foreign forces from the area and the seas around it. As regards the Cypriot conflict, it is the firm position of my country that there should be an agreed solution between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots aimed at the reunification of the island on a democratic basis which will ensure freedom of religion and expression and civil rights for all Cypriots. The Organization would be fulfilling its responsibility for the preservation of peace and ending the anomalous situation in which the island finds itself now by applying all the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council and considering them a basis for settling the Cypriot conflict.