UN General Assembly
1961

56. Declarations of intention, appeals to so-called reason, or honeyed words will no longer-satisfy us. After the adoption by the General Assembly, at its fifteenth session, of the historic Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, the time for prayers has passed. That resolution must be fully implemented forthwith; all enslaved peoples must be freed and the friends of freedom and independence must be counted by the attitude they adopt towards the colonialist countries. Africa, for its part, has engaged in a struggle for rapid and unrestricted liberation with the object of creating a universal society free from indignity, irresponsibility and enslavement, in which exploiters and exploited will not exist. 57. Our delegation will return to all these points in greater detail when they are discussed in Committee, 58. Another problem of concern to all mankind, the solution of which depends to a great extent on decolonization, is the problem of general and complete disarmament. At its fourteenth session, the General Assembly unanimously adopted resolution 1378 (XIV) in which it expressed the hope: