UN General Assembly
1957

107. And here I feel impelled to state and to remind the General Assembly that Syria is Egypt's ally, as well as Egypt's blood relation, and it is fully entitled to Egypt's help, as well as to help by the United Nations for the repelling of any aggression which might be launched against it. And I wish, in no equivocal terms, to leave no scope whatsoever for doubt that Egypt, for its part, will not tolerate that even a fingertip of Syria be hurt, that a hair of the head of Syria be ruffled, by any aggressor, but will immediately rise to a man and stand four-square with its sister State of Syria. 108. Syria, in preparing and providing for its own defence, has not done anything which it is not fully entitled to do; and it is not accountable to anyone for any of its actions in the exercise of any of its indisputable rights.