UN General Assembly
1971

110. This session of the General Assembly is meeting at a time when new dangers and threats to international peace and security have been added to those that already existed, at a time when the problems which concern the world are becoming still more complicated. The aggression of American imperialism has gone beyond the frontiers of Viet-Nam and has spread to the whole of Indo-China. Arab territories are still occupied and the prospects for peace in the Middle East seem to be more favorable than before. The Powers that practice the old and new methods of colonialism persist in their policy of oppression and ferocious plunder, of hateful racial discrimination and of the massacre of patriots and colored populations. The two great Powers have increased the arsenals of war and are brandishing weapons in the four corners of the world. Never perhaps have the demagoguery and hypocrisy of the aggressors on the subject of "peace" and "security" been so unbridled and so cynical as they are today; never have they used such resources or expended so much energy to brutalize the human spirit and poison man's conscience.