UN General Assembly
1984

159. The laying of mines in the Red Sea and the haste of the super-Powers and certain other countries to dispatch their warships and helicopters there in order allegedly to clear the mines are part of the pretext they have long sought to build up their military presence there and to maintain a permanently tense situation in that region. The present scenario in the Red Sea greatly resembles and, indeed, appears to be a variation of the scenario prefacing the intervention of the multinational force in Lebanon, and there must be a connection between them. 160. The Soviet social-imperialist aggressors have kept Afghanistan occupied for nearly five years now but have not managed to subdue the struggle of the freedom-loving Afghan people. That struggle demonstrates once again that a people, however small in number, is invincible when fighting for a just cause.