UN General Assembly
1962

25. Speaking before the Security Council in December 1961, the Indian representative stated that "Charter or no Charter, Council or no Council", law or no law, the Government of India was going ahead with the military invasion because "colonialism" was a permanent aggression against which one is entitled to react. This attitude of the Indian representative has never been denied or corrected by the Indian Government. This gives rise to far-reaching issues. In accordance with United Nations resolutions, in favour of which India has voted, Goa was a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and for such territories to achieve autonomy or independence the Charter and the resolutions of the Assembly envisage that certain principles be observed. But violent annexation by the Indian Union is certainly not one of those principles. Since the Indian Union has resorted to violent annexation, we wonder if the Indian Union proposes to annex only alleged Non-Self-Governing Territories which are contiguous to it, or even other territories which are geographically separated.