UN General Assembly
1981

176. What arouses worldwide admiration is the rapid renaissance of the Kampuchean people. In less than three years this valiant people, which survived the terrible genocide carried out by the Pol Pot clique, has driven back famine and is now reorganizing its social and family life. The economic, cultural and religious activities of the country are being gradually normalized. The Kampuchean people, master of its destiny, has held truly free and democratic general elections throughout the whole country to elect at all levels its organs of State power sand to adopt its constitution. These great achievements have unequivocally demonstrated that the People's Republic of Kampuchea is an independent and sovereign State and that the Kampuchean people, having fully exercised its right to self-determination, is now resolutely marching along its freely chosen path.