UN General Assembly
1973

135. The arrogance of the Government of South Africa is a result of the support and, in particular, the material and technical aid obligingly given it by the NATO military- industrial Powers in the form of unlimited deliveries of arms and munitions. This attitude is doubtless dictated by the fact that those Powers consider South Africa to be a bulwark against I know not what Communist tide. Is it not in the name of that red peril — which, furthermore, is baseless — that the Government of Pretoria pushes its stupidity and ignominy to the extent of establishing discrimination between animals? The NATO Powers must abandon their support of the unholy alliance constituted by the Lisbon-Pretoria-Salisbury axis and co-operate with the United Nations for the restoration of peace in southern Africa, because any racial confrontation that is started there may engulf that part of the continent.