UN General Assembly
1961

34. The Albanian people and Government have always sided with peoples who fight for freedom and national independence, against colonial domination. In our era the abolition of the colonial system has become imperative; it forms an integral part of the struggle for peace and social progress. Through their heroic battle for national liberation which without any doubt will end in total victory, the peoples of colonial countries are acquiring the fundamental right to freedom and national sovereignty; they promote the cause of peace by weakening the bases and positions of imperialism. The People's Republic of Albania has hailed with the warmest sympathy the accession to independence of dozens of countries in Africa and Asia in recent years. At the same time our thoughts and our hearts go out to our Algerian brothers who for the last seven years have been waging a heroic struggle against colonial domination; to the gallant people of Angola who are sparing no sacrifices in their armed fight for their freedom; to the peoples of Oman and West Irian and to all other peoples still languishing under the colonial yoke. Recent events at Bizerta, in the Congo, in Laos and in South Viet-Nam go to show that colonialism, in its former shape or in the guise of United States neo-colonialism, still oppresses peoples and constitutes a threat to peace.