UN General Assembly
1964

50. Portugal keeps our African brothers under its domination and does not appear ready to acknowledge the right of the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, so- called Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands freely to decide their own destiny. We ask Portugal not to remain blind to the demands of our age and to understand, before it is too late, that its own interests as well as those of peace would be better served by a wise and realistic policy, which would have as its objective the immediate satisfaction of the legitimate aspirations of the inhabitants of those territories. Portugal's present policy, which aims to perpetuate Portuguese rule in Africa by means of repression and persecution, it not only contrary to the United Nations Charter but also seriously compromises any chance of a negotiated solution.