UN General Assembly
1982

197. In view of the deadlock in the negotiations on the first phase, because of the electoral system proposed by the contact group, and since the presence of Cuban forces in the People's Republic of Angola has become the subject of a slanderous and hostile campaign by the United States Administration which is shamelessly seeking at all costs to link that presence to the process of the independence of Namibia-directly, or through the racist South African regime, which has become its sounding board-as an additional means of preventing the implementation of the resolutions which the United Nations has already adopted, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of Angola and of the Republic of Cuba, on behalf of their respective Governments, prepared and signed a joint declaration on 4 February 1982, with which all the Members of this international body are fully familiar. 198. It is therefore fitting to recall that, at the end of the month of August 1981, at a lunch offered to the foreign press