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of great duties (D.L. 29/12/67)'• Portugal's allies have also gone ahead in supporting her with clear statements of official policy. A Sub-committee for Foreign Affairs presented to-the- U.S. Chamber bt Representatives a report on the Portuguese position in Africa* "Portugal," the report said, nthe last Western country which keeps a wide jurisdiction over Africa, does so to spread Christian values and civilisation to underdeveloped nations." Twenty years agOf thousands of Africans, mobilised by the big anti-Hitler powers died for the cause of European freedom against Nazi Germany. Today, when Africa rises in arms against the forces of oppression, colonialism, fascism in Southern Africa, Western Europe does not have the courage to stand up with Africa and fight. Even a mere positive vote at the United Nations is deemed more expensive than thousands of African lives lost in fascist colonial wars in our continent. We are tola that as long as NATO's support for Portugal is mentioned in the resolution, Portugal's Western allies v/ill not vote for it, for they claim that arms given to Portugal under the NATO agreement cannot be used in the colonies. But all these powers know that Portugal has "Overseas Provinces" and that arms given through NATO can be used anywhere there to support "law and order*." If this is acknowledged by these powers, it means that NATO weapons are being used in so-called "Portuguese Africa," as part of the '"Portuguese State.5' All these powers also know that there is no effective machinery under the NATO military establishment to ensure that arms used in the colonies do not come from NATO countries, Therr may be such thing as a NATO arms factory, but there are arms factories in NATO member countries, manufacturing weapons for use in NATO countries exclusively. This being so we cannot be told that weapons used in colonies, coming from NATO member states, are not NATO weapons. We have specimens of weapons captured in the course of our battles in Mozambique, and we would like members of the Committee to see them and draw their own conclusions. Mozambique falls under the category of those countries whose inhabitants1 interests, under the United Nations Charter, Article 73, should be considered paramount, and therefore should be assisted in all ways to realise their political aspirations* Having been denied this by the Portuguese Government, the people themselves decided to resolve the problem on their own. The liberation war is now four and a half years old. Large areas have been liberated in Cabo Delgado and Niassa Provinces. Administration, health,, education and reconstruction programmes are being carried out in the liberated areas. Thus by their own efforts and the assistance of freedom-loving people the world over5 the Mozambican people have won resounding victories.over the Portuguese colonialists* The results so far achieved are very encouraging. In the 1968-69 fiscal year, Portugal allocated £86 million for the colonial wars, which was increased last January by £438,800. This allows Portugal to spend an average of £242,303f per day on the. colonial wars,'enabling her to maintain an army of ever 150,000 men. Portugal's friends are very sympathetic to her'cause. In April, 1966, Mr, Edward Heath declared that the Portuguese Government threatened no peace or international security whatsoever. Two years earlier, Mr. Michael Stewart, the British Foreign Secretary, said in the House of Commons that Britain continued to approve the sale of war material to Portugal• This is only understandable with the tangled Rhodesian -4-
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Full text | of great duties (D.L. 29/12/67)'• Portugal's allies have also gone ahead in supporting her with clear statements of official policy. A Sub-committee for Foreign Affairs presented to-the- U.S. Chamber bt Representatives a report on the Portuguese position in Africa* "Portugal," the report said, nthe last Western country which keeps a wide jurisdiction over Africa, does so to spread Christian values and civilisation to underdeveloped nations." Twenty years agOf thousands of Africans, mobilised by the big anti-Hitler powers died for the cause of European freedom against Nazi Germany. Today, when Africa rises in arms against the forces of oppression, colonialism, fascism in Southern Africa, Western Europe does not have the courage to stand up with Africa and fight. Even a mere positive vote at the United Nations is deemed more expensive than thousands of African lives lost in fascist colonial wars in our continent. We are tola that as long as NATO's support for Portugal is mentioned in the resolution, Portugal's Western allies v/ill not vote for it, for they claim that arms given to Portugal under the NATO agreement cannot be used in the colonies. But all these powers know that Portugal has "Overseas Provinces" and that arms given through NATO can be used anywhere there to support "law and order*." If this is acknowledged by these powers, it means that NATO weapons are being used in so-called "Portuguese Africa," as part of the '"Portuguese State.5' All these powers also know that there is no effective machinery under the NATO military establishment to ensure that arms used in the colonies do not come from NATO countries, Therr may be such thing as a NATO arms factory, but there are arms factories in NATO member countries, manufacturing weapons for use in NATO countries exclusively. This being so we cannot be told that weapons used in colonies, coming from NATO member states, are not NATO weapons. We have specimens of weapons captured in the course of our battles in Mozambique, and we would like members of the Committee to see them and draw their own conclusions. Mozambique falls under the category of those countries whose inhabitants1 interests, under the United Nations Charter, Article 73, should be considered paramount, and therefore should be assisted in all ways to realise their political aspirations* Having been denied this by the Portuguese Government, the people themselves decided to resolve the problem on their own. The liberation war is now four and a half years old. Large areas have been liberated in Cabo Delgado and Niassa Provinces. Administration, health,, education and reconstruction programmes are being carried out in the liberated areas. Thus by their own efforts and the assistance of freedom-loving people the world over5 the Mozambican people have won resounding victories.over the Portuguese colonialists* The results so far achieved are very encouraging. In the 1968-69 fiscal year, Portugal allocated £86 million for the colonial wars, which was increased last January by £438,800. This allows Portugal to spend an average of £242,303f per day on the. colonial wars,'enabling her to maintain an army of ever 150,000 men. Portugal's friends are very sympathetic to her'cause. In April, 1966, Mr, Edward Heath declared that the Portuguese Government threatened no peace or international security whatsoever. Two years earlier, Mr. Michael Stewart, the British Foreign Secretary, said in the House of Commons that Britain continued to approve the sale of war material to Portugal• This is only understandable with the tangled Rhodesian -4- |
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