UN General Assembly
1962

11. At no time has the problem of the independence of colonial and dependent peoples been a matter of more concern to all of us than it is today. Eloquent testimony of this fact was the adoption at the fifteenth session of the General Assembly of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Overcoming many obstacles in their way, these countries and peoples are trying earnestly, to win freedom, and independence, to achieve economic and social progress and to carve a bright future for themselves. For these efforts the people of Japan extend to them their admiration and abiding sympathy. 12. Freedom for dependent peoples is the trend of our times. Sanctioned and anticipated by the United Nations Charter, reaffirmed by the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples, freedom is an irresistible force that cannot, in the nature of things — and should not, in any circumstances — be thwarted or denied.