text: ments of paragraph 4 of resolution 320 (1972)“. We 7 thought, and think, that that seconh draft resolution was complementary to the first one we have just adopted, that in it was contained the further logical step-the concrete measures for the extension of sanctions. All its operative paragraphs, from 1 to 5, contained the decisions and requirements that simply have to become an inseparable part of the United Nations sanctions policies if they are to become more effective, with more telling effects. Let me here add that that draft resolution would have answered the Council’s directive in its resoIution 320 (1972) asking the Committee, inter alia, to submit proposals and suggestions for “extending the scope” of sanctions. The second draft resolution, which was not adopted because of the negative votes of two permanent members of the Council, stopped well short of asking for an extension of the sanctions themselves against South Africa and Portugal. May I recall that it was my Government’s view, officially expressed to the United Nations, that “sanctions against Southern Rhodesia can be fully effective only if they are applied against Portugal and South Africa as well”. 71. In regretting very much the Council’s inability to adopt this second draft resolution, although a large majority of members supported it, I would just mention that the Committee and the Council have been able in the past to adopt later what earlier seemed impossible. The Council can and should therefore return to the matters and proposals contained in the second draft resolution. 72. We think that there are ample reasons to believe-and that that has been the case all along here-that the Council is progressively becoming more and more ready to give wider and wider support to the just cause of the liberation 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the United Nations and its resolutions, specifically the adoption of sanctions against certain countries. The language used is formal and diplomatic, and the focus is on the international relations and politics of the countries involved. Given the context, it is likely that the text is related to international relations and the implementation of economic sanctions.