UN General Assembly
1963

49. In my delegation's previous speeches to this Assembly, we were compelled to draw attention to the unhappy and menacing situation that exists in the Horn of Africa which has its causes in the brutal partitioning Of the Somali people and their land by the colonial Powers in their scramble for Africa in the nineteenth century. Such cruel partitioning of the Somali people in that area, sharing as they do a common religion, language, culture and creed, has created a serious situation which has culminated in some parts in actual fighting and the shedding of Somali blood for no other reason than that they are committed to the defence of their right to self-determination and unity,