UN General Assembly
1968

164. From this standpoint, we note that authority in Southern Rhodesia is still illegally in the hands of the racist regime of Ian Smith and that South Africa, in flagrant violation of United Nations resolutions, is still depriving Namibia and the Namibian people of their legitimate right to be masters of their own national destiny; moreover, South Africa persists in imposing, as a matter of official policy, the immoral and inhuman system of apartheid. 165. We should pause and reflect, in a spirit of solidarity, on what the problems I have briefly outlined, as also those which afflict the peoples who have not yet achieved emancipation, mean in terms of human suffering, for only thus shall we understand their extreme gravity. 166. As I said earlier, my country has been a non-permanent member of the Security Council since 1 January 1968. Consequently, our actions in that body are public, and open to the scrutiny of world opinion. We feel we have