UN General Assembly
1982

46. Because of the importance we attach to peace in our area, a question that is vital to the progress and growth of our peoples, our President, Ali Nasser Mohammed, initiated a proposal in January in 1981 to open the Conference to participants from the Gulf States, the Arab Peninsula and the Horn of Africa to consider, in the presence of the other interested parties, the complete elimination from that area of all foreign military bases. We also support the Soviet proposals to make the Arab Gulf and the Indian Ocean into an area free from any foreign military presence as well as foreign bases.