UN General Assembly
1982

88. In contributing to this debate, we should like to express first of all, on behalf of Mr. Abdou Diouf, head of State, and of our country, Senegal, the fervent hope that at this session the Assembly will not shy away from the need for a lucid analysis of the problems confronting the international community nor from the courageous and persistent search for the most appropriate solutions, so that mankind may at last come to experience an era of peace, security and prosperity in the very spirit of the Charter of the United Nations. 89. Indeed, the situation facing the community of nations is but a sign that the international order which was established after the Second World War has run its course. Among the anomalies in this international order, colonialism and apartheid have shown exceptional longevity. Outlawed by the international community for many years now for its odious system of government, South Africa, supported materially, financially and militarily by certain industrialized States, still arrogantly ignores the resolutions and recommendations of the Organization. Today, four and a half years after