FRELIMO AT THE SECURITY COUNCIL
The Security Council of the United Nations Organisation met in Africa for the
first time in the history of the Organisation in order to deal exclusively with
the problem of colonialism in our Continent.
In its intervention before the Council,
FRELIMO criticised the lack of efficacy
of the United Nations in such fundamental matters as the eradication of colonialism and singled out the main reasons for
that inefficiency which is the attitude of
the great imperialist powers such as the
United States of America, France, Great
Britain, and others who systematically
vote with Portugal and block any decisive step that the United Nations would
like to make. We also explained the actual situation of the armed struggle, the
extension of the liberated areas, and the
work for national reconstruction, inspite
of the Portuguese terrorist activities. We
explained particularly that the development of our struggle and the participation of our people dictates the recognition of FRELIMO and not Portugal as
the sole legitimate representative of the
Mozambican people. We also made concrete proposals in order to further isolate
Portugal and increase the moral and
material support to our struggle.
The meeting of the Security Council here
on African soil is an event of great importance. In coming here to meet, the Security Council is declaring to the world as a
whole how aware it is of the fact that the
existence of colonialism and racist regimes in Africa represents a challenge to
the principles of the United Nations, a
political and moral anomaly which must
be corrected, a crime against mankind
which we all condemn and which we all
wish to eradicate.
We have come here to tell you what the
situation is in our country. To analyse
with you the role that the United Nations
has played in our struggle. To tell you
our opinion of the causes of the weakness
of the United Nations in the struggle
against colonialism. And to ask you to
take concrete measures to support our
liberation struggle and to isolate colonial
fascist Portugal on the international scene.
If there is anything important that we
must emphasize here, it is the changes
that have taken place in our country —
the  territory liberated, the schools and
hospitals created, the fields cultivated -
all this has been the work of the people
of Mozambique and of their organisation
FRELIMO, supported by the Organisation of African Unity, the socialist
countries and the progressive forces throughout the world, including those of the
western countries.
True, the successes that we have won
through the liberation struggle in our
country have always enjoyed the valuable
but too-far-removed moral support of the
United Nations. None the less it is worth
recalling .this positive aspect of the action
of the United Nations. After the unequivocal condemnation of colonialism in the
historic Declaration of Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and
Peoples, of December 1960, the United
Nations rejected the Portuguese fraud
of ((integration)) of the colonies, and
finally proclaimed the legitimacy of the
struggle carried on by the patriots of
Angola, Mozambique, Guinea (Bissau),
and the Cape Verde Islands, and the need
for all States to give them the necessary
material  and  moral  assistance  in  their
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