UN General Assembly
1974

236. International treaties are being invoked only to be openly violated. For weeks, for months, we have been watching the rape of a small non-aligned country by its far stronger neighbor. Repeated injunctions of the Security Council of our Organization have been either flouted or ignored. A new and enormous refugee problem is in the process of creation, and human suffering is being used again without much prudence, as a lever for political advantage. 237. Greece has repeatedly declared, and I am glad to be given the opportunity to solemnly reiterate from this rostrum, that Greece has no ulterior aims in Cyprus. As a signatory of the Nicosia agreements, it is committed against enosis and against partition. It has taken the position that the Republic of Cyprus is and must remain an independent and sovereign State and that its territorial integrity must be respected by all; that as an independent and sovereign State, the Republic of Cyprus is and should be free to follow the foreign policy of non-alignment or any other policy that best suits its interests.