REJECTION BY LISBON
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LISBON, Nov. 24. Portugal has rejected the 1 unanimous United Nations I Security Council resolution on her African territories, saying that the council is not competent to discuss the internal affairs of memberStates. A Foreign Ministry communique in Lisbon said that Portugal could not abandon her territories without “serious” injustice and irreparable harm to the overwhelming majority of the population, with whom there was “permanent and harmonious contact.” The Security Council resolution called on Portugal to begin negotiations aimed at the exercise of the right of self-determination and independence in its African territories and cease military operations in Angola, Guinea (Bissau), Cape Verde, and Mozambique. It also reaffirmed the inalienable right of the peoples of the territories to self-de-termination and independence . . . and the legitimacy of the struggle by those peoples to achieve that right.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33083, 25 November 1972, Page 15
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