UN General Assembly
1960

42. This action is in implementation of the unanimous resolution adopted by the Second Conference of Independent African States in Addis Ababa last June. Indeed, the hollow social basis of "apartheid" and the grievous practical harm it causes can be judged by the gruesome massacre of defenceless men, women and children at Sharpville, in March of this year, by the Union police. The untenable claim of a minority in South Africa is steadily building a wall of intense hate which will result in the most violent and regrettable consequences in the future unless this minority abandons the iniquitous racial policy which it pursues. 43. I now turn to the question of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. Portugal, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has by her metropolitan law claimed the territories she has colonized in Africa as an integral part of Portugal. I have, always emphasized that Africa is not, and can never be, an extension of Europe, and this Portuguese arrangement is repugnant to any concept of African freedom.