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the united nations: ONE STEP FORWARD Over the years the UN has gradually been made to give ever more decisive support to action aimed at ensuring respect for the fundamental and inalienable right of the peoples in the Portuguese colonies to freedom and national independence. Following the condemnation of Portuguese colonial policy and the recognition of the right of the colonial peoples to self- determination and national independence, and following the declaration condemning apartheid and racial discrimination as a crime against mankind, the UN has recognised the legitimacy of the wars of national liberation; it considers the colonial war Portugal is waging in Angola, Guine and Mozambique to be a threat to peace and world security. The UN has even gone further to declare all kinds of aid to the liberation movements to be both lawful and necessary and, finally, it has adopted concrete and positive measures, committing the specialised agencies to giving material support. This evolution of UN positions on the question of the Portuguese colonies is due to the real and objective advance of the liberation struggle in Mozambique, Guine and Angola, on the one hand, and to the development of political consciousness of of world opinion and the action of the progressive and democratic countries in the UN, on the other. ADVANCE OF THE STRUGGLE We can take the example of Mozambique to show the visible progress made in the armed struggle for national liberation. Launched on 25 September 1964, the guerrilla war has now spread to vast regions of our country, more than one-third of it, comprising Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Tete provinces. One quarter of the country, i.e. about 200,000 square kilometers and a million people, are under FRELIMO's effective control. The colonial state, the superstructure of the system of exploitation of man by man existing in our country, has ceased to exist in the FRELIMO areas. The crippling colonial taxes imposed on the people have been abolished. Portuguese laws are no longer applied there and their administrative and legal machinery has been destroyed. The economy has been organised, on a popular base. Together with the development of internal and external trade, education and health services have been set up and consolidated. Under the leadership of FRELIMO, the Mozambican people are thus progressively giving material form to their sovereignty. In the areas under FRELIMO's control, a new and embryonic state machinery is already in operation, based on a new correlation of forces, now favourable to the working masses. The emergence of this new political, social and legal reality in Mozambique - and also in Angola and Guine - has had its international impact and has been accompanied by a steady development of the world solidarity movement. At the United Nations, in December 1960, the progressive and democratic countries, through their persevering efforts, got the international organisation to adopt the historic declaration on decolonisation, i.e. the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. A year later, in November, 1961, these countries won a further victory in the. UN - the setting up of the Special Committee for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Spurred on by the Special Committee, fresh impetus was given to UN action aimed at ensuring respect for the fundamental and inalienable right of the peoples in the Portuguese colonies to freedom and national independence. Basing themselves on the progress made in our struggle, the progressive and democratic countries were able to make of the Committee of 24 an instrument which, within the limits and possibilities of the UN, won victories over Portuguese colonialism and its allies and
Object Description
Title | Mozambique revolution, no. 48 (1971 July-Sept.) |
Description | Contents: Message from the president of FRELIMO on the day of the Mozambican revolution (p. 1); Alliance against imperialism - FRELIMO's visit to socialist countries (p. 5); War communique - report from the military front (p. 8); The United Nations: one step forward - role of UN specialized agencies (p. 9); War review - analysis of the political and military situation over the last twelve months (p. 11); End of a mission - why the white fathers left Mozambique (p. 23); Visitors in free Mozambique - six journalists and cameramen from Soviet Union and a representative of the Union of Secondary Schools of Finland (p. 23); Guine: 12 years after Pijiguiti - FRELIMO's statement on the national day of Guine-Bissau (p. 28). |
Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273467 |
Coverage date | 1960/1971-10 |
Creator | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) |
Publisher (of the Original Version) | Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Department of Information |
Place of Publication (of the Origianal Version) | Dar Es Salaam, U.R. of Tanzania |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date issued | 1971-07/1971-09 |
Type |
texts images |
Format | 36 p. |
Format (aat) | newsletters |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
Filename | CENPA-346 |
Description
Title | CENPA-346~11 |
Filename | CENPA-346~11.tiff |
Full text | the united nations: ONE STEP FORWARD Over the years the UN has gradually been made to give ever more decisive support to action aimed at ensuring respect for the fundamental and inalienable right of the peoples in the Portuguese colonies to freedom and national independence. Following the condemnation of Portuguese colonial policy and the recognition of the right of the colonial peoples to self- determination and national independence, and following the declaration condemning apartheid and racial discrimination as a crime against mankind, the UN has recognised the legitimacy of the wars of national liberation; it considers the colonial war Portugal is waging in Angola, Guine and Mozambique to be a threat to peace and world security. The UN has even gone further to declare all kinds of aid to the liberation movements to be both lawful and necessary and, finally, it has adopted concrete and positive measures, committing the specialised agencies to giving material support. This evolution of UN positions on the question of the Portuguese colonies is due to the real and objective advance of the liberation struggle in Mozambique, Guine and Angola, on the one hand, and to the development of political consciousness of of world opinion and the action of the progressive and democratic countries in the UN, on the other. ADVANCE OF THE STRUGGLE We can take the example of Mozambique to show the visible progress made in the armed struggle for national liberation. Launched on 25 September 1964, the guerrilla war has now spread to vast regions of our country, more than one-third of it, comprising Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Tete provinces. One quarter of the country, i.e. about 200,000 square kilometers and a million people, are under FRELIMO's effective control. The colonial state, the superstructure of the system of exploitation of man by man existing in our country, has ceased to exist in the FRELIMO areas. The crippling colonial taxes imposed on the people have been abolished. Portuguese laws are no longer applied there and their administrative and legal machinery has been destroyed. The economy has been organised, on a popular base. Together with the development of internal and external trade, education and health services have been set up and consolidated. Under the leadership of FRELIMO, the Mozambican people are thus progressively giving material form to their sovereignty. In the areas under FRELIMO's control, a new and embryonic state machinery is already in operation, based on a new correlation of forces, now favourable to the working masses. The emergence of this new political, social and legal reality in Mozambique - and also in Angola and Guine - has had its international impact and has been accompanied by a steady development of the world solidarity movement. At the United Nations, in December 1960, the progressive and democratic countries, through their persevering efforts, got the international organisation to adopt the historic declaration on decolonisation, i.e. the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. A year later, in November, 1961, these countries won a further victory in the. UN - the setting up of the Special Committee for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Spurred on by the Special Committee, fresh impetus was given to UN action aimed at ensuring respect for the fundamental and inalienable right of the peoples in the Portuguese colonies to freedom and national independence. Basing themselves on the progress made in our struggle, the progressive and democratic countries were able to make of the Committee of 24 an instrument which, within the limits and possibilities of the UN, won victories over Portuguese colonialism and its allies and |
Archival file | Volume22/CENPA-346~11.tiff |