UN General Assembly
1969

Assembly will, in addition, hear proclamations of the indignation which these countries claim to feel against the barbaric and oppressive systems in southern Africa and the Assembly will pass new resolutions. Then these Member countries will forget the whole question until next year. Meanwhile, Portugal will increase its criminal activities in Africa; South Africa and Rhodesia will tighten their grip on the people who are already suffocating from the present yoke of apartheid. And the peoples’ wars for freedom will go on, with increasing numbers of dead and more people maimed and Burned. 161. The ideals this Assembly so cherishes must not be so compromised. They should not be so easily bartered for profit. But if the investment and trade policies of the imperialistic countries continue to make a mockery of the United Nations commitment to peace and justice, then other nations must consider whether they should acquiesce in this inactivity. For the issues will not be settled here. If the United Nations cannot act in support of justice with