UN General Assembly
1962

90. The Algerian people, which over seven and a half years carried through an armed revolution with fatal expenditure of its strength, has assumed responsibility for bringing about an economic and social solution which will be both a means and an end. 91. Aware of the difficulty of the task awaiting it in a divided world, and determined to preserve the benefits of its heavy sacrifices, that people has sought; a political and economic model calculated to meet its basic needs and safeguard its conquests. 92. Such a search was not easy. It was all the more difficult in that the model lighted upon would interest not merely Algeria but also other African or Asian countries, its brothers-in-arms. The responsibilities are overwhelming, for Algeria might be viewed as a laboratory for patient experiment on behalf of the common good of Africa and Asia, in which we might have failures and successes but would be aided by the contributions and experiences of others.