UN General Assembly
1961

48. Some of the elements of this small war are now known to the world. In 1954, the Sultan of Muscat, a stooge of the British, concluded an agreement with the Petroleum Development (Oman) Ltd., a subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Company—which, by the way, is Iraqi in name only, to exploit the oil resources of Oman, a country which does not fall under his jurisdiction. The most significant aspect of the conflict is the fact that the Petroleum Development Company owns and finances its own army, the Muscat-Oman Field Force, raised by the British Government and led by British mercenary officers.