UN General Assembly
1966

119. In their aggressive, colonialist activities against the peoples, the imperialists are bound together by mutual guarantees. Portugal and the racialists of South Africa are getting help and support from NATO and particularly from the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Mr. Wilson’s Government, with the support of the United States, is taking the line of intensifying British “responsibility East of Suez’’. While holding forth about this “responsibility”, the British colonialists are carrying out one punitive operation after another in Southern Arabia and Oman and are putting into effect their plans for the conversion of a number of islands in the Indian Ocean into military bases. 120. As for the Southern Rhodesian adventure, it surely proves that there is a conspiracy of imperialists and colonialists that goes far beyond the conspiracy between London and Salisbury. Relying on then last bastions in Africa - the Republic of South Africa and the Portuguese colonies- the imperialists are now extending this reserve of the “free world” by incorporating Southern Rhodesia into it.