UN General Assembly
1968

32. The recent events in Czechoslovakia have shocked the conscience of mankind. The President of the Republic of Zambia roundly condemned Russian military intervention in Czechoslovakia. Permit me to quote from the speech I made in the National Assembly of Zambia on 22 August 1968 — a speech which was circulated on 23 August as a document of the Security Council: “When today the whole world was stunned by the news of Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, President Kaunda described this outrage as ‘naked aggression’. Aggression indeed: for it is unthinkable that the Soviet Union, which has not failed to condemn colonialist and imperialist acts of aggression against colonial peoples, should find herself committing this monstrous act full of dire consequences for humanity and for the lovers of fundamental human rights. “What right has any nation, big or small, nuclear Power or non-nuclear Power to impose its will on another nation by force of arms?"