UN General Assembly
1979

375. These political and diplomatic successes are of course highly significant of the vitality and youth of the struggle of peoples for recognition of their rights, but they also remind us that the world in which we live is still marked by an antagonism that pits the forces of domination and enslavement against the forces of liberation and emancipation. 376. In this connexion, southern Africa is a gigantic base from which racist regimes and imperialism— whose faithful agents they are—are launching their offensives against our freedom, our dignity, our independence and our resources. 377. The corner-stone of the imperialist strategy is made up of the desire to set up a system of power that gives the appearance of change but leaves the foundations intact. In Rhodesia and Namibia, an attempt is being made to impose a uniform policy to the detriment of the rights of the peoples of that region, whose legitimacy has been firmly recognized by the international community.