UN General Assembly
1968

40. Of course, it is not always easy for someone who is temporarily deranged, even less so for a madman, to return to reason and wisdom. But the international community must not shirk the responsibilities that ensue from commitments freely entered into under the Charter. It must act to put an end to the obduracy of South Africa which, thanks to the support which we are continually denouncing here, is establishing apartheid, that crime against humanity, as State policy. It must also act so as to make the virtues of decolonization evident to Portugal, that small, underdeveloped European State which has every interest to economize, for development purposes, the resources that have been granted to it and the energies it persists in devoting to the maintenance of an army for fruitless colonial conquest.