UN General Assembly
1962

11. There is no doubt that the post Second World War era has witnessed a spectacular progress in the political emancipation of hundreds of millions of peoples, especially in Africa, the Americas and Asia. The United Nations has no doubt made a considerable contribution to this process. In 1960 the General Assembly adopted, without a dissenting vote, its resolution 1514 (XV) containing the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Although much has been achieved in recent years, much also remains to be realized, especially on the continent of Africa, not only in the field of eradicating classical forms of colonialism, but also in combating an equally dangerous plague that has come to be known as neo-colonialism. I feel I am in duty bound to mark out, for the record, the most dangerous of these danger spots on the African continent, as we see them.