UN General Assembly
1960

49. The main points made by the petitioners were the following: (1) Contrary to the spirit of the Treaty — which I have here and which I shall also make available to the Fourth Committee — and in order to destroy the national spirit of the people of Cabinda, the first arbitrary act of the Portuguese, only a few years after the signature of the Treaty, was to incorporate our country administratively in the colony of Angola, without any prior consultation of the people. (2) Notwithstanding article 4 of the Treaty, which lays down that the chiefs of the country and its inhabitants shall retain ownership of the land belonging to them, the Portuguese Government has taken possession of all our land and is assigning and selling it as it pleases. (3) Apart from lower elementary education, which is exclusively in the hands of Catholic missionaries, there is not a single higher elementary or secondary school in Cabinda. After seventy-five years as a protectorate, Cabinda has not a single teacher or doctor among its own people.