UN General Assembly
1961

50. A moment ago I said that we were living in a time of fear and insecurity. Indeed, the Tunisian people have just been the victims of a bloody aggression which has cost many Tunisian patriots their lives. Why the aggression? Merely because a stronger Government, the French Government, wishes to maintain, against the will of the Tunisian people, a military base on Tunisian territory. Unless our Organization, whose basic purpose is the maintenance of international peace and security, takes strong measures against such acts, the small nations will live in a perpetual nightmare, with their security and territorial integrity open to violation at any time.