UN General Assembly
1982

intensive efforts at present under way to end the long tragedy being played out in the Middle East to take into account these fundamental facts; otherwise international peace and security will remain threatened in that particularly sensitive region of the world, which could serve as the detonator for a world-wide catastrophe. 275. The Namibian crisis and the base policy of apartheid of the racist South Mrican regime constitute in Africa two examples of typical situations whose worsening over the period of three decades constitutes a humiliating defiance of the international community In spite of the various means set forth in the Charter for ending these anachronistic and universally condemned situations, South Africa has not yielded an inch 0 ground, in spite of the numerous statements and the pretences of negotiation repeatedly launched in order to give the impression that it is prepared to co-operate with the United Nations in settling these questions. 276. Even though it IS a decolonization question, and even though it is so clearly defined that there can be no doubt about it, the question of