UN General Assembly
1958

147. I now turn to the problem of Cyprus. In his statement before this Assembly [758th meeting], the Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, presented the views and plans of his Government on Cyprus. We all know that, upon the conclusion of the Second World War, the United Kingdom responded to the wishes of many dependent peoples in Asia and Africa by granting them freedom and self-determination. It is, indeed, sad to see that the British Government is unreasonably still denying to the Cypriots these same rights to which they are no less entitled. What is more, the British Government persists in considering the question of Cyprus through the prism of aims and purposes alien to the people of the island.