UN General Assembly
1967

75. The fact is that we in Britain are great believers in freedom and in the right of all countries to choose their own future. Moreover, we put these views into effect; we do not just talk about them. And we believed in this long before this Organization was created. There are 750 million people in the world today whom we have helped to reach and maintain their freedom. The most recent examples are Mauritius, which is soon to be a fully independent nation; the new States of the Eastern Caribbean, which have chosen a free and voluntary association with Britain; and, of course, South Arabia, which despite its special and complex problems is soon to be independent, and where we have sought to work with and through the United Nations in the form of the Special United Nations Mission.