UN General Assembly
1971

229. We should also like to take this opportunity of extending a warm welcome and hearty congratulations to the States of Bahrain, Qatar and Bhutan which have just been admitted to membership in our Organization. We are sure that these countries will make a positive contribution to the strengthening of peace and to understanding among peoples. 230. The twenty-sixth session of the General Assembly is meeting at a time when grave conflicts continue to threaten international peace and security. Senseless colonial wars are still being waged in various parts of Africa and Asia continents chosen by international imperialism as sites for conducting power struggle and for creating hotbeds of war. 231. Southern Africa is, for the most part, bowed under the threat imposed by a coalition of selfish and contemptible interests which join the proponents of apartheid in Pretoria and Salisbury with the decadent colonialists of Portugal.