Lastly, he pointed out that that delegation had based its references on information from the Western press and not its own because the latter could not even provide information on what had happened in Chernobyl. 79. Mr. MORA-GODOY (Observer for Cuba), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that, since the question of discrimination and racism was under consideration, it should be pointed out that in the United States there were, for example, 26 million black men, women and children who lacked schools and jobs and lived in generally inhuman conditions. Twenty-nine per cent of the male black population was unemployed. Furthermore, with regard to the racist regime of South Africa, it was the United States which supported and financed that regime and supplied it with arms to attack Angola, Mozambique and Lesotho and obstruct efforts to bring about Namibian independence. 80. Mr. SAFRONCHUK (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that the representative of the United States showed his ignorance of the history of the Second World War. Everyone knew that the Soviet Union had been forced to conclude an agreement with Hitler's Germany, which it had broken once the Western Powers had allied themselves with the Soviet Union and enabled it to repulse the attack of Nazi Germany, albeit at the immense sacrifice of 20 9General Assembly resolution 260 A (III), annex. 28 Economic and Social Council-First Regular Session, 1986 million human lives. It was unfortunate that the representative of the United States had forgotten the historic collaboration between the two countries and resorted to such affronts in exercising his right of reply. Furthermore, he used specious arguments with regard to the recent and distressing accident which had occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear-power station, which the sensationalist press in the United States 
**Analysis**
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**Category**
International relations, Politics