UN General Assembly
1990

I particularly welcome, in this respect, the presence in this Hall of the delegation of Namibia, whose people, on 21 March 1990, at the cost of a long and heroic struggle, acceded to independence and sovereignty under the auspices of the United Nations, which successfully organised and conducted the elections that made it possible to establish the first free institutions in that country. The success thus achieved, with the active support of the entire international community, must be strengthened. It is therefore vital for us to do our utmost to ensure that Walvis Bay, Namibia's only deep-water port, illegally made part of South Africa, is unconditionally returned to the new State as soon as possible.