UN General Assembly
1959

45. Similar convictions and emotions prevail in relation to several other big questions of our time, particularly the question of Algeria. Talk has recently been going around of a new French plan for resolving this question. On 16 September 1959 the President of the French Republic made a declaration outlining the plan. My Government has carefully examined this declaration. It did so with all possible detachment and objectivity and it has at least its initial views concerning it. It will naturally be for the Algerians, and for them alone, to form their own opinion and make their own decisions.