UN General Assembly
1969

when have Britain and the Soviet Union been genuinely interested in the unity of an African State? That is not their purpose and will not be the effect of their actions. Tanzania earnestly urges the United Nations not to watch the annihilation of millions of Biafrans while using the easy and comfortable words: “This is an African problem which must be solved by Africans alone.” This is not an African problem, It is a human problem. It is a problem in which very many nations represented in this Assembly here are directly involved through the supply of the instruments of mass slaughter. 167. Starvation is now the major instrument by which the Nigerian Government expects to achieve victory. But this would be a victory over the dead. It must not be countenanced. Reports from the International Red Cross authorities and other relief organizations have pointed out the desperate situation that now exists in Biafra. In the interests of humanity, the United Nations must discard its legalistic inhibitions and call on the Nigerian Government to facilitate without hindrance immediate and adequate