UN General Assembly
1952

88. In the hope that this session will forego the unrealistic tendency to ignore issues that threaten peace in the interest of the cold-war conflict and instead accord them the attention they deserve, we firmly intend to assert, in common with other Asian and Arab nations, the question of Tunisia and Morocco. Those of us who, because of our own history, are particularly sensitive to the desires of still submerged nations, have been alarmed to note their inability even to obtain a hearing out of fear that a debate might embarrass a pillar of one of the blocs and possibly work to the benefit of the other. But we cannot conceive that the major Powers, having fought both verbally and literally for freedom and independence, could wish to withhold them from others equally deserving. Therefore we shall not believe that me legitimate rights of nations and peoples to freedom and self-determination will be sacrificed for the sake of expediency.