UN General Assembly
1965

74. I now turn to the problems of Non-Self-Governing Territories and peoples. My delegation has always given its unqualified support to the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples that is contained in resolution 1514 (XV). In our opinion, passage of this historic resolution by the General Assembly must be taken to have supplemented the provisions of Chapters XI and XII of the Charter. It signalized international recognition of, at the same time as it legitimized, the "wind of change". It symbolized the passing of an era and the opening of new vistas of freedom and dignity for all. My delegation considers that the Declaration is a result of the universal changing of the balance of forces in favour of the progressive freedom-and-peace-loving system of the exploitation of man by man. Hence the Declaration is a clear expression of these progressive forces against the continuation of colonialism and for its eradication in all its forms and manifestations. The Government as well as the 10 million people of the United Republic of Tanzania fully and unequivocally reiterate their support of this Declaration as well as their support for the millions of people still struggling for their national liberation.