UN General Assembly
1973

88. Recent developments in the situation in Zimbabwe as a result of the adoption by the rebel racist regime of Ian Smith of measures of coercion and economic strangulation of our brothers, the people of Zambia, have indeed moved international public opinion and have stigmatised once again the Fascist type of policy being practised in that British colony. We shall never cease to repeat that the responsibility for that situation falls squarely on the shoulders of the British Government, which refuses — for reasons involving its own interests — to take strong measures against the minority regime in Salisbury. The equivocal position of London with regard to the Rhodesian rebellion acts as encouragement to those other States that violate with impunity the Security Council resolutions on economic sanctions and that provide massive military and financial assistance to the racist regime of Ian Smith. This situation is one of extraordinary gravity and as such constitutes a serious threat to international peace and security.