UN General Assembly
1990

It is particularly comforting to be able for once to talk about our own region, southern Africa, with some justified optimism. In this connection perhaps the most important development in the region has been the accession of Namibia to independence on 21 March of this year. I would therefore, on behalf of the Malawi delegation and the Malawi Government, extend once again to the Government and the people of Namibia our warm congratulations. However, not all the political problems that have hitherto confronted southern Africa have now been evolved. For, with the exception of the question of Namibia, moat of the issues on the southern Africa agenda remain unresolved. The insurgencies in Angola and Mozambique continue unabated, while apartheid with all its adverse implications remains in place in the Republic of South Africa.