UN General Assembly
1966

114. While we have the happiness of seeing an ever increasing number of countries freed from the colonial era and joining our Organization, we must nevertheless not forget the agonizing fate of numerous peoples still suffering under the colonial yoke. The Charter of the United Nations places upon us the obligation of respecting and defending the inalienable right of peoples to decide their own destiny, and we regret to note that certain Powers, though Members of the United Nations, do not hesitate to dishonour their commitments and subject millions of human beings to the inhuman system of the exploitation of man by man. Neither the historic Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, adopted by our Assembly six years ago [resolution 1514 (XV)], nor the decisions of the Security Council and the numerous resolutions of the General Assembly seem to have the slightest effect on these colonial Powers, which persist in following only their own anachronistic policy and in taking into account only the profits and advantages they derive, or hope still to derive, from their exploitation of colonial countries.