UN General Assembly
1979

45. We have always attached great importance to the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, because the implementation of that Declaration would affect all maritime routes involving the Gulf and the Red Sea. The security of the Red Sea ranks high among our priorities in the Sudan. 46. It is our deepest hope that all countries of the region that share our concern will join hands and cooperate to ensure that the Red Sea becomes a haven of peace, so that all forms of foreign hegemony and superpower rivalry are eliminated and all regional problems are settled through constructive dialogue and in a spirit of co-operation, fraternity and good neighbourliness. We want the Red Sea to be an international commercial route and a fishing area—and no more.