UN General Assembly
1968

longer an international protectorate. It is an area of sovereign States which alone have the duty and responsibility of determining the conditions of their coexistence. When the parties have reached agreement, it would be natural for their agreement to receive international endorsement and support. 127. To the Arab States we say: “For you and us alone the Middle East is not a distant concern, or a strategic interest, or a problem of conflict, but the cherished home in which our cultures were born, in which our nationhood was fashioned and in which we and you and all our posterity must henceforth live together in mutuality of interest and respect.”