{UAH} Amin, at U.N., Appeals to Americans to Rid Their Society of Zionists

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/02/archives/amin-at-un-appeals-to-americans-to-rid-their-society-of-zonists.html

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y., Oct. 1 —President Idi Amin of Uganda, in a visit to the United Nations today, appealed to the American people "to rid their society of the Zionists."

In a long message to the General Assembly, delivered in President Amin's presence by his chief delegate to the United Nations, Khalid Younis Kinene, he asserted that the United States had been "colonized by the Zionists."

The Uganda President also called for expulsion of Israel from the United Nations and for the "extinction of Israel as a state."

Earlier in his message, President Amin paid tribute to the American Revolution as an inspiration to the third world. He also expressed gratitude to President Ford and Congress for their "changed attitude" toward developing countries, as evidenced in the recent Special Session of the General Assembly on Development and International Economic Cooperation.

Speaking as chairman of the Organization of African Unity, General Amin appealed to the United Nations to "help us spare blood" in southern Africa by backing the fight for liberty and independence of black people in South Africa, Rhodesia and Namibia, or SouthWest Africa.

While Uganda's chief delegate read the long message in English, President Amin sat in a beige armchair on the rostrum. He wore a gold embroidered dark green uniform with the insignia of the British Victoria Cross and many medals and held a red and gold marshal's baton.

He received a standing ovation when protocol officers led him into the Assembly hall.

President Amin raised his hand in sign of salute and stepped to the lectern to say a few words in Luganda, a Uganda tribal language. According to a translation, he said he did not want to speak in a "foreign language," and therefore had asked his chief delegate to read his message.

After his 90‐minute message had been read, President Amin stepped forward and delivered an improvised speech in British‐accented English.

On behalf of 46 independent African member states, he said, he wanted to inform the Assembly that "we, are not racists." He added: "Nobody should tell you Africans are against whites." He lashed out against the South African "racist regime" which, he declared is "stealing the gold, the diamonds of Africa."

'Work With Entire World'

To repeated applause from Africans and some other delegates, President Amin affirmed that "we want to work with the entire world community," Europeans, Asians and Americans.

At the end of his 10‐minute impromptu remarks, President Amin received another ovation.

In the statement read by the Uganda delegate, President Amin said he wanted the world to know that Africans were not only against "colonialism, neocolonialism and Zionism," but also against hunger and other social scourges.

He said he wanted "to pay a compliment" to the Portuguese military movement that assumed power last year because it had pursued "progressive policies."

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