UN General Assembly
1968

23. I have every confidence that all the humanitarian organizations which have shown such commendable concern for the suffering and the deprivation of the Nigerian people, regardless of the side of the strife on which they may be, will always keep those twin objectives in mind, for I know how much they themselves realize that partisanship is inimical to their lofty goals. 24. While much of mankind remains alarmed by what has continued to happen and by the new events that have taken place in the past year, some amongst us — in fact an overwhelming majority in number but a minority in terms of economic and military power — have for a long time Kept our fingers pointing to the big fire that is building up now in southern Africa.