UN General Assembly
1956

156. The honest efforts of H.M. the Sultan, in our relations with France, to find some common ground between the two parties and to bring about a peaceful solution of the Algerian problem, have been misconstrued and coolly received by the French Government. Our faith in the future is unshakable, however, and we are more firmly determined than ever to play our part in securing peace in North Africa and ensuring that justice and law shall prevail. We believe it highly desirable to put an end to the reign of fear, anxiety and insecurity in Algeria. The Algerian people have been deprived of the basic freedoms in their own country — freedom of speech, assembly and movement. The presence and the brutality of hundreds of thousands of armed troops in Algeria constitute a threat to peace in that part of the world.