UN General Assembly
1969

over Namibia and the setting up of the United Nations Council for Namibia, we have seen no improvement in the attitude of the Vorster regime. Instead, it continues to implement the Self-Government for Native Nations of South Africa Act and the South West Africa Affairs Bill, which give South Africa’s Parliament and its central government very wide powers over the affairs of Namibia and enforce in that territory the policy of apartheid and discrimination. 12. The Portuguese Territories of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea (Bissau), are fortified by arms provided for them by NATO. It has been said that those arms have been supplied for strategic reasons in Western Europe; but Portugal has no war in Europe and all the arms are being used solely to slaughter thousands of innocent Africans. Again, it has been said that the treaty arrangements which the United States of America has with Portugal regarding the Azores and other strategic areas have forced the American Government into a position of assisting Portugal. Now that those treaties are being reappraised and it is clear