UN General Assembly
1982

Timor Leste Independente. Despite renewed efforts by the Secretary General and the international community to find a negotiated settlement to the problem of Cyprus, no real result has yet been obtained. We therefore once again express our concern over the persistence of this problem and our hope that urgent action will be taken to bring the positions closer together and to enable the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus to live together in peace, understanding and harmony and to safeguard the independence, the territorial integrity and the nonaligned character of Cyprus. Nonalignment, as the Assembly knows, is the comers tone of the foreign policy of the Republic of Guinea Bissau. My Government therefore supports the efforts of the nonaligned movement to present its unity and cohesion, the only way to ensure its ability to take action to promote the maintenance of national peace and security. We thus feel it necessary, taking into account the particularly serious international political situation today, to reaffirm the fundamental principles of the policy of nonalignment, especially the principles of nonintervention and peaceful settlement of