UN General Assembly
1970

123. By their dealings with South Africa, its main trading partners have not only failed to give moral leadership but are helping to undermine the authority of the United Nations at a time when it is sorely needed to deal with the interrelated problems of southern Africa. South Africa continues to occupy Namibia and to extend apartheid to that Territory in defiance of the United Nations termination of its Mandate [resolution 2145 (XXI)] and in spite of the fact that the. United Nations has assumed responsibility for leading that Territory to independence. Its economic and military alliance with the rebel regime in Zimbabwe is in defiance of the economic sanctions imposed on that Territory by the Security Council [resolution 253 (1968)] and helps in the suppression of the liberation struggle of its oppressed people.