UN General Assembly
1969

are capable in their struggle against their oppressors.” [A/7754, paras. 11 and 12.] 68. Consequently, Africa has the right to require that Pretoria, Salisbury and Lisbon should make an equitable return for the attitude of conciliation which it has adopted. So far, however, no worthwhile reaction has been noted. The Democratic Republic of the Congo strongly denounces, from this rostrum, the hypocrisy of those great Powers and calls on them to co-operate with the United Nations to wipe out the scourge which the policy of apartheid in South Africa and that of racism in Rhodesia constitute for the world. 69. I now take up one of the most challenging issues of our time. It is that of the economic and social situation. Several speakers from this rostrum, in fact, have repeatedly expressed their concern at the increasing disparities between the economy of the so-called developed countries and that of the countries of the Third World, the so-called developing countries, in order to bring out the gap that divides them. In certain circles it is maintained that the