UN General Assembly
1964

19. We have moved a long way from the San Francisco Conference of 1945, when only two independent African countries were among the original signatories to the United Nations Charter. The road to independence has been long, fraught with difficulties, opposition, prejudices and impediments of various descriptions and forms. But today, happily enough, we are proud to see that the number of independent African countries in this Organization has risen to thirty-five. It is evidence of the fact that the enormous sacrifices made by freedom fighters throughout Africa, motivated only by love of freedom and the dignity of man, have not been in vain.