UN General Assembly
1969

encouraging and in an increasing number of cases has frustrated Rhodesian exports. It is on these lines we must proceed. To pass resolutions demanding the use of force, or demanding a total economic confrontation with other States in southern Africa, is to commit the error against which you, Madam President, warned us in the passage of your speech which I quoted earlier. It would be particularly foolish to commit this error when we have near to our hands a practical and effective way of proceeding, which is to see that the important resolution 253 (1968) is rigorously observed both in letter and in spirit. 76. I turn now to another and even more urgent problem, that of the Middle East. Since we all discussed it a year ago, there has been much diplomatic activity and unhappily little progress. And meanwhile there has been continuing violence. The cease-fire has in fact broken down. There have been many acts of violence in which hundreds of lives have been lost and thousands of lives have been disrupted