UN General Assembly
1967

77. I have tried in the course of this statement to define the views of the Republic of Mali on the problems which divide the Organization. The United Nations can only survive in so far as we prevent it from becoming involved in tense situations and confrontations, and make use of it to preserve the peace of the world. 78. Like the tribe at the dawn of civilization which fiercely guarded the smouldering embers of the dying fire, we must work untiringly to preserve a world peace predicated on the liquidation of imperialist wars of aggression and the suppression of mercenaries, and on vindication of the right of peoples to self-determination; in a word, a peace predicated on international justice and morals.