UN General Assembly
1967

48. There is no deluding ourselves that economic sanctions as a punitive measure against the illegal regime of Ian Smith have failed, as they were bound to fail given the known attitudes of certain key Members of this Organization. And now we hear that Rhodesia, having beaten sanctions, is feverishly working to consolidate racism and apartheid by a systematic programme of subsidized white immigration and support by South African security forces. What is the next step, we ask? Ghana is convinced that the use of force is the next, indeed, the only logical step left in this long and protracted effort to save the people of Zimbabwe from the cruel oppression of the minority white settlers. This Assembly must ask itself what the fate of the United Nations Organization would be if its decisions were continuously ignored and its principles violated with impunity.