Viva Goa Livre!
Com Fe Firme em Deus Venceremos!
"That (i.e. the invasion and forcible occupation of Goa) is a matter of faith with us. Whatever anyone else may think, Charter or no Charter, Council or no Council, , that is our basic faith which we cannot afford to give up at any cost."
Ambassador C.S. Jha, the Indian Union's Representative before the UN Security Council, New York, 18th December 1961.
"It is a universally recognised and honoured principle of law that the rewards of aggression must not be permitted to remain with the aggressor. The United Nations was based on this principle. The founding fathers of its Charter had not written the Charter so that the scourge of war should be considered as an instrument by anyone who was strong enough to overcome his neighbours."
M.C. Chagla, the Indian Union's Foreign Minister, before the General Assembly of the United Nations on 21st June 1967, denouncing Israel for seizing and keeping territories from the Arab states that had initiated a sudden and unprovoked war of aggression against it.
Boas Festas de Pascua!
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