UN General Assembly
1978

107. The attempts to acquire spheres of influence, which we are witnessing today in the continent of Africa and in the southern accesses to the Red Sea, raise the most profound concern in the Yemen Arab Republic. Our Government has expressed in more than one international forum, and specifically at the two conferences of Foreign Ministers of the Islamic and non-aligned countries, its desire to maintain the Red Sea as a zone of peace far removed from international conflicts and big-Power rivalry. This is a goal which the brother Government of Algeria has been pursuing in regard to the Mediterranean and it also coincides with the position of other brotherly and friendly countries concerning the Indian Ocean, which has been declared by the General Assembly a zone of peace [resolution 2832 (XXVI)].