UN General Assembly
1966

6. Rhodesia is our neighbour and many of its inhabitants are our brothers. Many of its leaders have known the inside of prison cells together with the leaders of my own country during the dark days of our struggle for freedom. Their fate under the present illegal regime in Rhodesia therefore is not a matter of indifference to us in Malawi; it is a matter of grave concern, and we in Malawi are as determined as any other nation to see restored to Rhodesia proper constitutional rule and a true non-racial democracy under which the rights of our brother Africans to freedom, justice and peace will be properly safeguarded. The links between us and those brothers were forged in the dark days of difficulty, and for that our determination to help them and to bring to an end the present situation is all the more enhanced. Let it not be thought that Malawi is in any way acquiescent in the present state of affairs in Rhodesia or that it holds any brief for the present illegal regime there. Rhodesia is not only a problem, it is a problem with which both we in Malawi and our brothers in Zambia have got to live, and we must be realistic in our approach to it.