UN General Assembly
1963

141. It is accordingly appropriate to pay sincere and glowing tribute to the Government of the United States and particularly to President Kennedy for their courageous stand in favour of the American Negro* s rehabilitation, and to assure them of our full support in this endeavour, which all Africans appreciate since they are convinced that any attack upon persons of African origin is an attack upon all Africans and upon the dignity of mankind as a whole. 142. One of the fundamental demands of the Addis Ababa Conference, resulting from our renewed will to strengthen the United Nations, was for the decolonization of all existing structures and practices in our Organization. 143. Since 1958, the delegation of the Republic of Guinea has been among those which have continued to insist, here and elsewhere, on the imperative need to adapt the Charter of our Organization to the new facts of international life.