UN General Assembly
1968

100. The armed revolution came after our people had exhausted all peaceful ways and means in unsuccessful attempts to persuade the British colonialists to accede to the will of our people and to accept our right to self-determination and to the shaping of our own future. After a bitter struggle, during which the revolution spread out from the countryside until it swept the towns, our people achieved their great victory. They wrested their liberty, in whose cause thousands of martyrs were sacrificed, rid their land of the military and political vestiges of colonialism and liquidated the gigantic British military base in Aden, which had continuously threatened the independence and security of neighbouring Arab and African countries.