UN General Assembly
1982

Council it vetoed the draft resolution strongly condemning the aggression and calling for its immediate cessation. The veto was in no way accidental; it constituted the implementationof what had earlier been proclaimed the new regional strategy of the United States regarding southern Africa. The basic tenets of this strategy, which in its very essence is a doctrine of recolonization, amount to nothing less than a naked threat to use South Africa to bring about the destabilization of independent African States. As regards the Namibian problem, the so called new doctrine basically encourages the South African racists to retain Namibia as a colony of South Africa and to impose on the Namibian people conditions that are advantageous to Pretoria. The Apartheid regime is allowed to use force in pursuing its colonial policy, to employ the piratical methods of the Israeli militarists in Lebanon, and to attempt to destroy the South West Africa People's Organization and to exclude it from participating in decisions on the future of its homeland. The task of the United Nations is to prevent