UN General Assembly
1968

So that on the one side we have governmental minorities working for the monopolies and the forces of war, and on the other side the vast majority of the progressive socialist countries and all peace-loving and freedom-loving peoples. There can be no intermediate front in the struggle against the forces of reaction and war. The choice is clear. It certainly could not be the non-aligned countries, which have never agreed to be a third force between the two opposing blocs. The non-aligned countries which drew up a peace programme at Cairo undertook to fight against imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, and to support the liberation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. President Modibo Keita, leader of the Mali people, has always stated that non-alignment is not a “tight-rope act”.