UN General Assembly
1960

115. I said that it was a sacred duty for me to discharge this moral debt, for you are fully aware that my country, placed under French administration by virtue of a trusteeship agreement drawn up in accordance with the United Nations Charter, owes you, more than any other body, an account of the way in which both independence and democracy are functioning in Cameroun. 116. In March 1959, at the conclusion off lengthy discussions here on the question of giving my country democratic institutions, the General Assembly adopted resolution 1349 (XIII), the tenor of which may be summed up as follows: (a) The holding of free elections by universal suffrage as soon as possible after the proclamation of independence; (b) The exertion of sincere efforts towards national reconciliation,