UN General Assembly
1983

68. These signs are ominous, as they represent a most serious and depressing deterioration in the international security situation. They are evident everywhere—in Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia and in Central America. In all these areas one war or another is raging. The champions of injustice, oppression, colonialism, exploitation, racial bigotry and imperialism have taken up arms against the forces of progress, human dignity and freedom. 69. On our continent, Africa, the spotlight has again been focused on Chad, where non-African Powers, including a super-Power, have intervened in the internal affairs of that country, thereby robbing the OAU of the opportunity to find a peaceful solution to the long-lasting problem that, unfortunately, is tearing that country apart.