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Rhodesia

The United Nations Anti-Colonial Committee of which Ethiopia is a member,
is presently visiting Africa to follow closely the dangerous situation in Southern
Rhodesia. In South Africa and in South-West Africa, the policies of apartheid
and oppression are becoming increasingly unbearable. The South African
Government is accelerating its ruthless campaign: a methodical
campaign of arresting daily, detaining without trial and torturing the Africans
and their leaders who are struggling for the their fundamental human rights
and freedom. All the peace-loving countries of the world must act together
to force the colonial governments of South Africa and Portugal to desist from
these policies - policies which are inhuman, policies which deny basic human
rights, policies which are detrimental to the peace and security of the entire
world and grant independence and freedom to these oppressed people.

Next Assembly

It will be recalled that the Cairo Assembly of the Heads of State and
Government decided to convene the Second Assembly of the Heads of State
and Government in Accra, Ghana, in September this year.
Because of misunderstandings among certain member states of the Organization
of African Unitys voices have been occasionally raised recently against the
convocation of the Assembly in Accra. Nonetheless, the regular Assembly of
the Heads of State and Government was, in the first place, designed to find
peaceful solutions, through deliberations and frank exchange of views to such
misunderstandings among member-states. We believe, therefore, that any
change in the venue of the next Assembly will make no major difference.
Consequently we have dispatched our Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to
West Africa, with personal messages from us, to mediate vith the leaders of the
West African states concerned.

We earnestly hope that the member-states of the organization of African Unity
will meet in Accra in September in accordance with the decision of the first
Assembly of the Heads of State and Government.
On this day, we extend our fraternal greetings to all our brethren Africans who
are still suffering under foreign colonial rule. We reiterate that Ethiopia, in
co-operation with the member-states of the Organization of African Unity, will
always continue to give her full support for their just struggles to win their
inalienable rights to freedom and independence, and to be masters of their own
destiny. May Almighty God assist us in these endeavours.

May 25, 1965.

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