UN General Assembly
1970

105. The most alarming factor in this situation is the economic and military assistance that certain States Members of the United Nations continue to extend to South Africa and Portugal. This economic and military assistance, and more particularly the increase in foreign investments in the territories under colonial domination in southern Africa, are helping politically to strengthen the colonialist regimes and constitute a more and more specific threat to the independent African countries and Africa generally. 106. The alliance between Portugal, South Africa and the Salisbury regime confirms that the colonial regimes in power in southern Africa are attempting to encircle independent Africa. 107. Two years ago our SecretaryGeneral called attention to the gravity of the situation and addressed the following remarks to the African Heads of State: " I must recognize that the destiny of the world will be influenced greatly if not decisively by the future development of events in Africa. Peace and progress throughout the world depend on peace and progress in developing Africa."