UN General Assembly
1962

21. The Special Committee for South West Africa was now clearly in a difficulty. After all, the records of the Fourth Committee show that at the fifteenth session in 1960 and again at the sixteenth session in 1961 of the General Assembly, no less than thirty-one Member States had declared that the situation in Southwest Africa was a threat to world peace; sixteen States had made allegations regarding genocide — the words used were that the population was being exterminated — and nine States had complained about the militarization of the Territory. Indeed, these charges, figured prominently in the discussion that led to the adoption of General Assembly resolution 1702 (XVI), appointing this Committee.