UN General Assembly
1956

120. These conditions, without which no effective aid is practicable, are no doctrinaire counsels of perfection invented by a theorist; they are the result of practical experience; and their disregard, as several instances in the past have proved, renders effective aid impossible. 121. I am thinking in particular of Indonesia, a country which has repeatedly stressed its great and urgent needs. Yet that same country has, especially in its relations with the Netherlands, acted in a manner contrary to the conditions just mentioned. 122. Indonesia, earlier this year, unilaterally tore up all the agreements signed with my country at the Round Table Conference at The Hague in 1949, agreements entered into under the auspices of the United Nations and sanctioned by the United Nations Commission for Indonesia; it has, further, repudiated its debts to the Netherlands, the amount of which was fixed in consultation with the United Nations and freely agreed to; finally, it has subjected a number of Netherlands nationals to persecution by trumped-up lawsuits and maltreatment and torture by the police.