UN General Assembly
1961

121. Portugal's is the largest empire today—the oldest ally of the United Kingdom—a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Portugal owns 1.3, million square miles in the world, the greater part of it in Africa, with small enclaves on the Indian continent, in the Pacific Ocean, south and east in Timor and Maco. We are not here to make any special pleading on behalf of a particular part of these territories, but Portuguese colonialism does not even have the characteristic of nineteenth century or twentieth century colonial rule. It is characterized by cruelly and repression which have resulted in- according to authoritative estimates—somewhat over 130,000 refugees fleeing into the Congo.