UN General Assembly
1969

principles, which are the constant factors in its diplomacy. Acting thus, we seek neither to please nor to offend, but to do all in our power to contribute to the preservation of an orderly peace. 87. A war is raging in the west of Africa. It is entering its third year. In it, one ethnic group faces others. It has already caused almost two million deaths. This war is being waged in an undeveloped country where the medical infrastructure and the network of food distribution are insufficient, where the quality of building materials in the villages is rudimentary, where bomb shelters do not exist. 88. Yet, because of the intervention of some great Powers and with their connivance, this war is being waged with the most modern and sophisticated weapons; British and Russian bombs are being dropped by Ilyushin planes on defenceless villages. All these factors have made it the most devastating, murderous and inhuman war that the modern world has known; two million dead in two years, in such a small area.