UN General Assembly
1970

46. We are gratified, however, at the fact that a faint glimmer of light is beginning to dawn in the conscience of a segment of Portuguese public opinion which heretofore has been ill informed on the issue. Submitting the policy of the Portuguese Government in Africa ever since 1930 to critical examination, the opposition party, the Democratic Union party, declared in September 1969: "the right of African communities to self determination is recognized by all moral authorities in the world and is enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in the papal encyclicals".