UN General Assembly
1961

12. At the last session the Soviet Union introduced a draft declaration!/ on the abolition of colonies throughout the world. The African States participated most vigorously ii\ the debates on this subject, and finally the Assembly passed a general resolution [1514 (XV)]. That resolution applies to the whole world, but we in Nigeria do understand that it is not possible for all countries that are today under an imperialist domination or a colonial regime to become independent at the same time. As I am sure we have all read this morning in the newspapers, it has been announced in London that Uganda will be independent in October 1962. That is in Africa. We welcomed Sierra Leone here in the earlier part of this session [1018th meeting], and we look forward to the admission later of Tanganyika. When you look at the map of Africa around the Republic of the Congo, you find that the bulk of the dependent territories are in that area, and some of the future headaches for the Organization will be in that area.