UN General Assembly
1983

Than to assist us, the Members of the United Nations, to make decisions in the cause of peace and to facilitate the implementation of any decisions we make. United Nations peace-keeping forces can buy time for us. But if we, the Members, and in particular the powerful Members, do not realty want peace or are not prepared to pay even a small price for peace. The United Nations staff can Achieve very little, if anything. Can therefore only thank them, and particularly the able Secretary-General, for their great efforts on our behalf. I last spoke to the General Assembly during the twenty-fifth session in October 1970, devoting the bulk of my speech to the problems of colonialism and racism in southern Africa. Progress have been made since then. Angola, Mozambique and the other Territories which were Portuguese colonies at that time are now sovereign nations and Members of this body. So is Zimbabwe. But peace and freedom have not come to our region.