UN General Assembly
1984

108. The situation in southern Africa, particularly the question of apartheid and the issue of the independence of Namibia, is as explosive as ever. The inhuman system of apartheid, which is at the heart of the southern African problem, continues to thrive and to develop deep roots, partly through the manoeuvres of the apartheid regime, but also thanks to the support of certain Members of the United Nations. Those Member States, which profess a commitment to freedom and human rights and which therefore, should be in the vanguard of the struggle to eliminate apartheid, have unfortunately chosen to appease and reinforce that inhuman system through their open collaboration with it. How else are we to interpret the visit by the leader of the apartheid regime to Portugal, Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom and the warm reception accorded to him? By their action, these countries have helped Botha to break out of the isolation to which the international community had condemned him and his inhuman regime.