UN General Assembly
1967

48. It is quite understandable that delegations, when speaking in the General Assembly, give priority to the situation in their own parts of the world. But international problems are closely inter-related. Poverty in Africa and Asia can be explained by the policies of exploitation pursued by the monopolies of the United States and Western Europe; the suffering In the Middle East is principally the result of the policies of the United States; the racist extremism of the regimes in Southern Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa is the result of the policies of countries that support the racists, countries situated thousands of miles from the African continent. It would be an unforgivable mistake to be interested only in one's own problems. A fire in the neighbour's house can easily bring disaster to everyone.