UN General Assembly
1971

110. A careful study of the reports of the Special Committee on Apartheid, the United Nations Council for Namibia, the Committee of Twenty-Four, and the Trusteeship Council leaves us with the depressing conclusion that no major progress has been achieved in recent years in the area of decolonization in southern Africa. On the contrary, apartheid continues to be strengthened in South Africa, and is spreading to Southern Rhodesia under the illegal regime of Ian Smith. South Africa's control over Namibia shows no sign of weakening. In the Territories under Portuguese administration in Africa, the liberation struggle continues unabated. This situation is not only a challenge to the credibility and capability of the United Nations in the eyes of Africa's millions; it is also an invitation, unfortunately, to the oppressed peoples of Africa to pursue violent means of achieving their political rights, freedom and human dignity.