UN General Assembly
1969

123. All that remains to be done therefore is to encourage the two parties to cease hostilities immediately and to start negotiations. We believe that the moment has come for the United Nations to take up the matter and to exert pressure on the belligerents. The Organization cannot evade this obligation by claiming that this is strictly an African problem, requiring an African solution, since it has been proved that the continuation of this war is largely due to the intervention in the conflict of Powers foreign to Africa which are delivering arms to both camps. 124. We have already said elsewhere that if the Nigerians want at all costs to preserve the unity of their country through war, they could no doubt ultimately succeed in doing so. But then they must resign themselves to the inevitable consequence, which is as paradoxical as it is unthinkable: the total extermination of the Ibos, who have resolved to die to the last man rather than continue to live within the present Federation. Then territorial unity will