UN General Assembly
1969

freedom is inviolable and the fundamental freedoms are guaranteed to all our citizens; all are equal before the law without distinction of race, tribe, colour, sex or religion. Our Constitution, in its Part II, Chapter I, guarantees public freedoms. 8. It is with all the deeper distress that we see in the southern part of our African continent — by which I mean Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Southern Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa — that these freedoms which we are all proud of enjoying and to which we are so deeply attached are utterly denied to a vast number of individuals, and that the United Nations has not yet succeeded in finally eradicating those destructive cankers, colonialism and apartheid. 9. We must, of course, pay tribute to the worthy attacks that our Organization, urged by the countries of the third world and especially by those of Africa and Asia, constantly makes on the forces of evil in that part of the world. Nevertheless, no matter how noble our Organization’s