UN General Assembly
1963

85. We deplore that there still are countries which have not realized the positive character of the process of decolonization. We believe that the United Nations should assist in completing the process of liberating the dependent peoples in Africa, and particularly in doing away with the inhuman policy of apartheid. It is to be hoped that the Government of South Africa in its own interest will not ignore the serious warning which the Security Council issued in regard to apartheid on 7 August of this year. We urge that Government to change its policies in a direction which gives the whole population of South Africa, regardless of race and creed, equal opportunities to live together in a free, democratic society. If, however, the Government of South Africa continues to pursue its abhorrent policy of apartheid with its concomitant measures of suppression, we fear that it can end only in international catastrophe. We therefore believe that the main task of the United Nations must be, by taking suitable steps which can obtain general support, to continue its endeavours to influence the Government of South Africa to change its course.