UN General Assembly
1967

77. In our efforts to deal with these problems, we look for understanding from this Assembly and its Committees. But what at times have we found? Both in the Committee of Twenty-Four and in the wider forums of our Organization, it seems to us that there has too often been a reluctance to hear, willingly and without pre-judgement, the freely expressed views of the people of the Territories themselves. There has sometimes been a refusal to recognize and accept the full and thorough processes of popular democratic consultation. 78. Examples of this lie in recent decisions by the Committee of Twenty-Four on Fiji and on the Associated States of the Eastern Caribbean. These have illustrated, I believe, this reluctance on the part of that Committee to heed the voice of the colonial peoples themselves. But an even stranger example has been the case of Gibraltar. The Committee's recent resolution on Gibraltar seems to me to have been thoroughly bad. It ran directly against two principles which surely the Committee should have been the first of all to defend.