UN General Assembly
1982

nations. Nor will the conditions of true peace exist while the millions of the North are blessed with plenty, while dehumanizing poverty and crippling underdevelopment plague the millions of the South. Nor will the conditions of true peace ever exist until the miasma of apartheid is eradicated from southern Africa. These conditions will not exist and be secure until, in word as well as in deed, we begin to live out the true meaning of the resonant exordium of the Charter of this great Organization. There it reaffirms the faith of the founding nations and indeed of all mankind in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.