UN General Assembly
1983

138. Can we not dare to hope that this time, with many elements favourably in place, the cease-fire will hold and that dialogue will now replace the gun in an effort to resolve outstanding differences, that a Government may emerge bearing the stamp of approval of the Lebanese people and the Lebanese people alone, a Government which will direct the future of the country in a climate of peace and stability? 139. Last year the signs were such that an imminent resolution of the Palestinian question seemed within the realm of possibility. It was not to be. Now, a year later, the future of the Palestinians' homeland seems as uncertain as ever. There is more internal division than unity. Notwithstanding this, real peace will come to the Middle East only when the Palestinian Diaspora ends, and that will be only when the people of Palestine have a land to be their home.