UN General Assembly
1976

128. French colonialism in Djibouti is a spent force without much will to linger on. TTie only way it can stay on in one guise or another is by taking advantage of circumstances that outside forces may create for, it. African countries should, therefore, continue their vigilance and should make sure that the call they have especially made to the two neighboring countries of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia, at the last summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity [OAU], held recently in Mauritius, should be completely adhered to and implemented. That call consists of a request that Ethiopia and Somalia should renounce any and all territorial claims to Djibouti and that they give an undertaking to respect the independence and territorial integrity of Djibouti after its accession to independence. 129. Ethiopia, on its part, has made an unequivocal declaration at the highest possible level and reaffirmed several times that it does not have any territorial claim to the whole or any part of Djibouti!