UN General Assembly
1965

50. All this goes to prove that the gunboat diplomacy of the nineteenth century is still prevalent when colonial Powers find it necessary to show their muscles. The realization has not been made yet that this is an outdated policy and that the peoples of the world cannot anymore be subjected to such humiliation. The only solution is to grant immediately Aden, Oman, the Southern Protectorates of Arabia, Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia, the peoples of the Union of South Africa their independence and complete equality. But what amazes me most is the fact that we are unable to find any difference in the foreign policy, as far as the Arab countries are concerned, of the Conservatives of England, who conducted a war against Egypt in 1956, and the Socialists of England today, who are following in their footsteps, or, in fact, between both of them and nineteenth century imperialism.