UN General Assembly
1963

12. The only result Mr. Salazar will achieve, unless he thinks again, will be independence wrested from him in bloodshed. This is certainly not what the African States would wish. The majority of our States attained independence through negotiation. Today fruitful cooperation is growing up between them and their former metropolitan countries. So much the worse for Portugal if it cannot learn the lessons of these events. The combined efforts of all the African States to extirpate the Portuguese colonial hydra from our continent cannot fail. The Addis Ababa Conference gave particularly close attention to this problem. Our concerted action has already begun to produce results. On 22 September 1961 the Senegalese Government was the first to call upon the General Assembly [1012th meeting] to expel Portugal from the United Nations. At the time this looked like an inopportune move. Yet all we were asking for was that the Charter should be applied. Since Portugal was flagrantly and deliberately violating the Charter of the United Nations which it had undertaken to respect, we felt justified in calling for its expulsion.