UN General Assembly
1978

200. It has always been our view that only through an open discussion of ideas and problems between Africans would it be possible to find lasting solutions for the problems of the continent; and for the first time after the decolonization and the return of democracy to my country we were invited this year to attend the fifteenth ordinary session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU in Khartoum, where we enjoyed the generous hospitality of the Government of Sudan. And, indeed, we were gratified to witness how creative, fertile and dignified a debate can be when it brings face to face men, albeit of diverse cultures and backgrounds but nevertheless united in the just and lawful defence of the causes which they believe can best enhance the prestige of Africa, its peoples, its traditions and the vitality and richness of its future.