UN General Assembly
1960

17. Representing as we do one of the small nations of the world that has only recently emerged from colonial rule, we are irrevocably and resolutely opposed to all forms of colonialism and imperialism. We are naturally gratified to see so many new nations among us today who have freed themselves from the bonds of colonial domination. But the rusty chains of dying colonialism still hold in bondage millions of people in some parts of the world. Many millions more have fallen victims to a new and more sinister form of domination — that of world communism. We in the Federation of Malaya have undergone a long period of colonial rule, but we have also fought in our country, for more than a decade, the menace of world communism. Mindful of all these things, we have dedicated ourselves fully to the cause of national liberation and freedom anywhere in the world.