UN General Assembly
1956

9. With the admission of Sudan, Tunisia and Morocco, the African-Asian group has become the largest single group of States in the United Nations, now totalling one-third of the Members. What is significant, however, is that they do not constitute a bloc of States whose votes may be influenced one way or another. Each question is judged on its merits, with the result that the members of the group do not vote as a bloc except where it is a question of defending the principles for which every single member of that group has suffered. The Bandung Conference of 1955 has indelibly marked our community of ideals. Not one of us has escaped the scars of imperialistic designs, and our histories have without exception been marked either by a painful rise to independence against overwhelming obstacles or by bitter and continuous struggles to maintain that independence, struggles which are still going on today — and are not least in Africa.