UN General Assembly
1965

21. It is, once again, the intolerable superiority complex of certain Powers which leads them to accept co-operation between European and other industrial Powers and People's China, but which keeps them from having sufficient confidence in the African countries, which, they think, might surrender their sovereignty as a re suit of indoctrination or bribery. Mali, conscious of its sovereignty and its African and international responsibilities, does not accept this frequently uttered gross insult and, with all due respect, Mr. President, I must say that Mali has nothing but contempt for neocolonialist charges of this kind. 22. My Government believes that interference in the domestic affairs of States is at the root of most conflicts, present and potential, between States. It supports the USSR Government's draft declaration on the inadmissibility of intervention in the domestic affairs of States and on the protection of their independence and sovereignty [see A/5977].