UN General Assembly
1969

exist, this Organization must provide just and effective means of protecting those rights and to secure those States, for it would be to argue a curious logic — having given life to the small States under conditions in no way related to the material power they might later exercise in affairs of the world, but which had everything to do with the rights of their peoples as men—that Member States of this Organization should remain unmoved as these new nations fall prey to the expansionist ambitions of older or far more powerful neighbours and the aspirations of their peoples are crushed. 100. It is of more than passing interest to recall resolution 1954 (XVIII) on the question of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland which was adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 1963. Paragraph 4 of that resolution reads as follows: “Solemnly warns the Government of the Republic of South Africa that any attempt to annex or encroach upon the territorial integrity of these three Territories shall be considered an act of aggression”.