UN General Assembly
1992

This is the case with regard to the brotherly people of Iraq, whom the international community seems to have forgotten after having imposed on them one of the most cruel and intensive forms of comprehensive economic embargo ever an embargo that has deprived them of all the requirements of civilian life, including those of children and medical care. The Republic of Yemen calls upon the international community to lift the embargo imposed on the Iraqi people. On another level, Yemen has voiced its concern over the actions taken to prevent Iraqi aircraft from flying beyond latitude 32 to the south of Iraq under the pretext of protecting the Shiites. We are certainly against any arbitrary actions or violations of the human rights of any group of people. But we are also against intervention or interference in the internal affairs of any sovereign State. The segmentation of the sovereignty of the State of Iraq over its territories in the north and the south, in our opinion is not consonant, with the principle of respect for the sovereignty of States. It