text: him and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Sir Geoffrey Howe, for a job well done. 65. It is a little more than two weeks since the Security Council demanded by its resolution 571 (1985) the with- drawal of South African troops from Angola. There would not even have been time for that resolution to be imple- mented, and yet we find ourselves back at the Council in an atmosphere of heightening crisis to discuss once again the brutal violation by South Africa of Angola’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty. Once again South Africa has demonstrated unashamedly what a rogue ele- phant it has turned itself into. That it has never at any time in the past shown any respect for the decisions of the Council is a painful and frustrating fact we all know only too well, but that it has grown accustomed to showing that disrespect with such wanton exuberance is an ominous development which the Council can ignore only at great peril to peace and stability in southern Africa. 66. We have said on numerous occasions before, and we say now, that the problem in southern Africa today is not the presence of Cuban forces in Angola but the illegal occupation of Namibia by South Africa and the pestilence of apartheid and racial tyranny in South Africa. Not only that: Cuban forces in Angola, about which Pretoria has been raving and ranting so pretentiously in the past few years, are in Angola because of South Africa’s thwarted attempt to destroy the People’s Republic of Angola at birth. If South Africa had not invaded a nascent Angola in 1975, there would have been no Cuban forces in Angola to rant and rave about. But the fact that they are there does not give South Africa or anybody else the right to violate 
analysis: This text appears to be a political statement or a diplomatic address, discussing the situation in southern Africa, specifically the conflict between South Africa and Angola, and the role of the United Nations Security Council. The language used is formal and diplomatic, indicating that the text is likely from a government or international organization.