UN General Assembly
1959

25. It was with much regret that the Federation of Malaya once again co-sponsored the request for the inscription on the agenda of this session of the General Assembly [A/4147 and Add.1] of the question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of "apartheid" of the Government of the Union of South Africa. My delegation sincerely hopes that the Government of the Union of South Africa will not continue to ignore the appeal which has been made year after year since 1952 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling upon it to do away with. its policy of "apartheid". It is hoped that the moral force of the United Nations will bring about a change of heart towards a more enlightened policy consistent with fundamental human rights and human dignity on the part of the South African Government. Such a change will remove the only blot in an otherwise happy relationship now existing between the Federation of, Malaya and the Union of South Africa in the family of the Commonwealth of nations.