UN General Assembly
1968

21. An outstanding and rewarding task of the United Nations has been to secure self-determination and independence for the people under foreign rule. The USSR has been most vocal in denunciation of imperialist Powers and has decried any measures to impede the progress of decolonization. These very champions of the cause of the underdog not so long ago horrified the whole world by their armed occupation of Czechoslovakia, an act which is a flagrant breach of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign State and a glaring example of the worst type of imperialism. It is not only heinous in this instance, but also a travesty of faith vis-a-vis those who have signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [see resolution 2373(XXII)]. The USSR forces have remained in Czechoslovakia in defiance of world opinion, and we join in the call on the USSR to withdraw its forces from Czechoslovakian soil.