UN General Assembly
1959

107. Once again, the case of Algeria cannot be compared with that of the Territories which have now become the African and Malagasy Republics of the Community. The territory of Algeria, which, as General de Gaulle said, has never, since the beginning of time, known unity, still less Algerian sovereignty, has for nearly a century and a half been bound by innumerable close ties to France, whether in the field of demographic structure, economic affairs^ culture or administration.