UN General Assembly
1968

81. At this juncture we are bound to note that the policy of force and world hegemony pursued by the two major Powers is the direct cause of the present tense and dangerous situation in the Mediterranean, where their war fleets are deployed and operating. The peaceful and freedom-loving countries of that region are bound to be particularly concerned by the threatening and aggressive activities of those two fleets, especially now in view of the situation created by the aggressive attacks in the Middle East and Czechoslovakia. It is clear that the increase in the co-ordinated activity of the two Powers and the movements and concentrations of their troops and warships (for example, the recent concentration of Soviet troops in Bulgaria and the strengthening and manoeuvres of Soviet naval forces in the Mediterranean) are certainly not designed to defend peace, as these two Powers assure us, but rather to carry through their joint aggressive plans