UN General Assembly
1982

effective measures to fulfil the aims and objectives of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of IS. We support the efforts by the Organization. including the good offices of the Secretary-General. to find political solutions and to obtain the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and Kampuchea. 16. We support the efforts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to bring about the reunification of Korea and once again call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of foreign troops from South Korea. 17. We remain steadfast in support of the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-aligned status of the Republic of Cyprus. We call for meaningful progress in the intercommunal talks and for an early agreement on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Cyprus. 18. I wish now to focus particularly on the questions of southern Africa and the Middle East~ as well as to outline briefly Zambia's perception of the institution of the United Nations. 19. The situation in southern Africa still looms over us as one of the major factors contributing