UN General Assembly
1959

89. An attempt has been made to interpret the consent of some Heads of State within the French African community as a moral guarantee of the projected experiments. With your permission, I shall mention the public stand taken by a number of these leaders. 90. The Head of the Mauritanian Government made a strong protest, against these experiments in an interview granted to the Paris newspaper Le Monde. on 6-7 September 1959, and I quote: "The possibility of -French atomic experiments is also causing us a great deal of anxiety.” And he added: "I have already made my views known to the responsible parties." 91. The Government of the Mali Federation, comprising Senegal and Western Sudan, instructed its permanent delegation in Paris to issue a statement affirming that the Mali Federation had never agreed to a nuclear test in the Sahara. That statement was published in the same Paris newspaper, Le Monde, in September 1959.