meetings or in terms of the complicated consultations behind the scenes. We are grateful to you for your co- operation and understanding. The delegation of SWAP0 extends to you its best wishes as you continue to carry out your demanding mandate during the remainder of your term of office. 58. More than 70 speakers, including Ministers for For- eign Affairs and other high-ranking officials, participated in the debate. The attendance of the Prime Minister, Presi- dent of the Council of Ministers and Foreign Minister of Peru was particularly gratifying to us. We thank all those statesmen and dignitaries for the strong reaffirmation of their countries’ solid support for and solidarity with our struggle for national independence and social liberation. 59. I also reiterate SWAPO’s sincere appreciation to the Secretary-General for his continuing efforts to help end the needless suffering and colonial violence, and to bring about Namibia’s independence, which has been delayed for too long, We welcome the Secretary-General’s latest report on Namibia [S/17242$ 60. The Council’s debate started with repeated expres- sions of indignation and condemnation directed at the rticist regime of Pretoria for its generalized and persistent acts of aggression, apartheid violence and colonial tyranny in southern Africa. The notorious policy of constructive engagement, together with its hated offshoot, the pre- condition of linkage, was roundly condemned, and the collusion of its authors, Washington and Pretoria, tho- roughly exposed. These pernicious and racist policies stand firmly rejected by all because their objective is to entrench apartheid further, to delay the independence of Namibia, and to weaken the independent States in the region, in an effort to make them dependent on apartheid South Africa, The primary interest of the United States, in collaboration with the Afrikaner regime, is to perpetuate the status quo, namely the continued, unfettered plunder of natural 
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