UN General Assembly
1972

250. If that were to be the case, no matter how unseemly it may be to have to say this, Africa, in the settlement of its problems, will have less and less confidence in the United Nations and much more faith in itself. In the last analysis, this is what it has already stated quite recently at the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government at Rabat, when, after the disappointing results of the meetings of the Security Council at Addis Ababa, it decided to increase its aid to the liberation movements. This is also what it expresses each day more and more clearly by settling itself the disputes which arise within its frontiers. In saying this, we are thinking of the reconciliation achieved between Guinea and Senegal, between Guinea and the Ivory Coast, the treaty signed at Rabat between Algeria and Morocco under the aegis of the recent summit, meeting of OAU, the reconciliation between Zaire and my country, the efforts which are now under way between President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire and President Ngouabi of the People's Republic of the Congo, to reach a peaceful settlement of the dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, and lastly those efforts which are being undertaken by President Siad Barre of Somalia to quench the fire that has just blazed up along the frontiers between Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania.