UN General Assembly
1963

42. The Security Council has already been called upon to act on the real threat to peace and security created by the convulsions of colonialism in Portuguese territories and in Southern Rhodesia, where a tyrannical European settler regime is being heavily armed by the United Kingdom, in defiance of the warnings of free Africa and after having applied the veto to the request of the Security Council when it was recently asked by the African States to act on the explosive situation in Southern Rhodesia. 43. Here I wish to refer to the statement made from this rostrum by the representative of the United Kingdom [1222nd meeting] that his Government intends to build societies in which majorities rule. I take this opportunity to invite Her Majesty's Government to confirm that this principle of majority rule will also apply to Southern Rhodesia.