UN General Assembly
1963

168. These and related questions clearly have reference to the rights of the Arabs of Palestine, rights which are their own, and which no one else has any warrant whatsoever either to detract from or to forfeit. 169. Casting a glance at this point around the Arabian Peninsula, we note to our regret that the United Kingdom still denies several peoples in that area their right to self-determination and independence. This includes in particular the people of Oman who, for quite a long time now, have risen in revolt against such denial, and the people of the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, which was arbitrarily severed from Yemen by the United Kingdom, on whom the United Kingdom has imposed a fictitious federation and whose right to self-determination has, nevertheless, been recognized and supported by the Committee charged with implementing the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.