UN General Assembly
1957

55. The part played by the United States in this field deserves a special brief comment. This Power would seem to be becoming the chief actor on the Middle Eastern stage. With its strategic and economic interests it appears to be gradually replacing the European Powers which have traditionally dominated the area. The policy at present pursued by the United States in the Middle East consists not only of supporting indirectly the aims of colonialism and Zionism but also of filling the alleged vacuum left by the decline in the influence of the European Powers. In these circumstances the methods employed by the United States are coming to resemble more and more closely the methods of the past. 56. I should now like to examine a number of questions in the solution of which my country is particularly interested.