UN General Assembly
1976

83. The tragic events in our neighbor, the friendly State of Lebanon, are directly related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and should serve as a warning of what could befall the whole region if a just settlement of the Middle East problem is not reached soon. We follow these events with grief and anxiety and it is our earnest hope that hostilities will cease and that a solution safeguarding the country's independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity and non-alignment will be speedily reached. 84. Closely connected with the problem of the Middle East-and similar to it in many of its aspects-is the problem of Cyprus.