UN General Assembly
1982

country are complex. We have explained them on numerous occasions; they are on record in the authoritative statements of the supreme organs of State. Those abroad who were willing to understand them did understand. Others failed to show sufficient good will and respect for the norms of international relations to leave Polish affairs to Poles. For no one knows or can know better than the Poles themselves what is good and right for Poland. The proclamation of martial law in Poland, ratified in the Act passed by Parliament on 25 January this year, complied with all the requirements of the law. From first to last it was a sovereign Polish, and solely Polish, decision. No constitutional body, including the Parliament and the Government it had duly constituted, ceased to function as a consequence. They all continue to shoulder their great responsi¬bility for the destinies of the nation and the State, in a situation in which the survival and the future of independent Poland, for which many generations have fought, were at stake. At the price of emergency measures