UN General Assembly
1963

191. The Upper Volta considers that the United Nations presence should be maintained as long as the Congolese leaders deem it necessary, in order to avoid endangering the relative calm which has been so early secured. How distressing is the sight of these countries torn by hatred and chaos, divided against themselves, and even divided in fact.' The United Nations, supported by the goodwill and the good works of various countries, has succeeded in countering the process which, by a chain reaction, would have ended by turning the Congo into a place which nobody would have wanted even to imagine.