, OPO reconstituted itself as the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Africa_People%27s_Organisation" title="South West Africa People's Organisation" class="mw-redirect">South West Africa People's Organisation</a> (SWAPO) in New York on 19 April, 1960, Nujoma was elected president <i>in absentia</i>. He arrived in New York in June 1960 where he petitioned before the Sub Committee of the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Nujoma demanded that South West Africa be given it