UN General Assembly
1969

rates in the world, a country which, without the barbarous imperialist forces of NATO, would not have lasted a single day against the upsurge of the revolutionary masses of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea (Bissau) and the Cape Verde Islands. 246. Thus, by the unconditional support which they lend to Portugal’s outdated policies and colonial military expeditions, which they strengthen and equip in defiance of every moral law and of the sacred right of peoples to decide their own destiny, the forces of NATO are guilty of abominable crimes which will remain for ever graven in the memory of mankind. 247. The African populations under the Portuguese colonial yoke have been basely oppressed and dishonoured. The policy and conduct of the Portuguese administration in the occupied African territories is the most reprehensible and revolting imaginable. It is the brutal application of a policy of systematic suppression of all rights. In these African territories, under the oppressive rule of Portuguese colonialists, the best land belongs to the Portuguese masters. Trade and all other activities enabling man to take part in