UN General Assembly
1982

to the deterioration in international relations. The issues in that perturbed region are well known. I wish none the less to recount them. They are, first, the continued illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa; secondly, the policies and practices of apartheid of the South African regime; and, thirdly, South Africa's military aggression against and its destabilization of neighbouring Independent African States. 20. Four years have passed since the Security Council adopted resolution 435 (1978) on Namibia. That resolution was welcomed by the international com-munity as a practical and realistic basis for the termination by South Africa of its illegal occupation of Namibians for the Territory's process to its long-delayed independence. To date, Namibia remains under illegal South African occupation as the numerous efforts undertaken to put resolution 435 (1978) into effect have ~en of no avail. 21. This session of the General Assembly takes place against the background of renewed efforts to break out of the impasse over the implementation of resolution 435 (1978). Consultations involving the South West Africa People's Organization [SWAPO], the front-line