UN General Assembly
1965

70. This security is directly threatened today by the development of events in Southern Rhodesia. We have said that in this new South Africa the administering Power has full responsibility. The behaviour of the Salisbury racists can in no way diminish or call into question the role which must be played by the United Kingdom in the restoration of the inalienable rights of the Southern Rhodesian people to universal suffrage, self-determination and independence. Merely to condemn a regime whose fundamental law is allied to violence and oppression would be to invite grievous disappointment. It is the United Kingdom's duty to mobilize the necessary means available to it to assume all its obligations.