UN General Assembly
1960

105. And this is what has led to the inclusion of the problem in the agenda of this session. But this time the problem comes before you from an entirely different angle. By now, there is ample evidence that France is playing a game. France is determined to score a victory in Algeria by military or political strategy. We shall not allow France to gain that victory either in the military field or in the political field here in the United Nations. France is anxious to exploit every well, particularly the oil of Algeria. To stay in Algeria is the determination of France, which has been kept in the heart of France under different pretexts. In the past the guise was civilization; later the guise was pronounced to be pacification. Today, Paris went into another fashion: self-determination. If, however, it is self-determination, it is one that France is striving to implement, by France and for France.