UN General Assembly
1976

79. In the name of the same principle, we demand the implementation of the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly in respect of East Timor and Western Sahara, which are victims of aggression and occupation. We do not understand why the States that have decided to annex the territory of Western Sahara, in agreement with the former colonial Power, so much fear the implementation of this principle, which our Organization has defended in the past 20 years of decolonization. If the peoples concerned truly want their destiny to be associated with that of Morocco and Mauritania, then let them state their views freely and let us not be satisfied with the vote of an assembly of notables. Madagascar, as the first country to recognize the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, is convinced that that is the only solution that will bring peace to the area. At the present time that Republic is in danger of extinction by a Moroccan-Mauritanian invasion. We demand the immediate cessation of that invasion and we request that urgent humanitarian assistance be given to the Saharan people. It is also our firm hope that Djibouti will soon achieve independence and that France will take the necessary steps to create an atmosphere favorable to democratic procedures leading to the immediate and unconditional independence of the so-called "French" Somali coast.