UN General Assembly
1962

12. Why was that so? What was the situation in Goa before Indian aggression? Goa had 4,500 civil servants, and, with the exception of ten technicians, they were Goans from the highest to the lowest rank. The police were all Goans. The municipal and legislative bodies were entirely composed of Goans, elected through direct, universal and secret suffrage; and the Goans since 1822 had been represented by their elected deputies in the National Assembly. The wealth of Goa remained in Goa, and the standard of life, in every respect, was between four and five times higher than in the Indian Union. There was religious freedom, no race segregation, no caste system. Goa was truly self-governed and self-administered, all its inhabitants exercising full political and public rights on a footing of absolute equality of opportunities and guarantees. But let us suppose for a second that the situation was different. Let us suppose that the situation was not satisfactory and in harmony with the United Nations Charter.