UN General Assembly
1961

42. The Charter of the United Nations is based on respect of the human person and the dignity of peoples. I am therefore surprised that a Government such as that of South Africa should be sitting here in our midst. The problem of "apartheid" is an urgent and acute challenge to our consciences. It is truly singular that a State which claims to be modern should raise racialism to the level of a dogma, in the very middle of the twentieth century. Yet that is what we find in South Africa. In our opinion, the measures adopted so far are inadequate. We should have recourse not only to a general economic and diplomatic boycott but also to more direct measures, in particular, expulsion from the United Nations.