UN General Assembly
1978

keg'. They were made so in the past by foreigners and imperialists, who held all the detonators and who wish to . maintain that situation even today. The Balkan peoples are in duty bound to cut all the fuses with the sword, so that peace- and security may be firmly established in the Balkans. It goes without saying that our peoples need friends. But they must never become the tools of foreigners to the detriment of the interests of any people or of all our peoples jointly." 39. As a Mediterranean country, the People's Socialist Republic of Albania has always attentively followed the complex situation which has been created in the Mediterranean