UN General Assembly
1966

The Government of Niger cannot but deplore that obstinacy; it hopes that the inhabitants of the Portuguese colonies will before long be in a position to exert their right of self-determination in a real sense. It is nothing short of a tragedy for the Portuguese people, once so attentive to the trend and lesson on history, to find itself today drawn by the blindness of its present leaders along the retrograde and anachronistic paths of modern colonialism, at a time when other European nations have for years been giving it lessons in progress and in the morality of relations among communities.