UN General Assembly
1969

countries on our continent, and indeed on all other continents. It is with great regret that I have to mention one excepticn. 38. At the last session of the General Assembly I spoke of the serious situations of international concern affecting the people of the Asian continent [1690th meeting]. I expressed the hope that a peaceful settlement of the disputes would be found in an amicable solution of the problems causing them. We are still deeply concerned about those situations in which Afghanistan is not directly involved; but we are directly involved in the high tension between the people of Pakhtunistan and the Government of Pakistan, fraught as it is with danger for the future peace and security of that region. 39. The cause of the people of Pakhtunistan is a legitimate and just cause based on the right of peoples to self- determination and the fulfilment of the aspirations of peoples to determine their own fate and future. This is a cause that, as Members know, Afghanistan has supported for all peoples everywhere, and naturally we cannot do less