UN General Assembly
1957

78. I should like to acknowledge here the courageous stand of Senator Kennedy, who asked for a cease fire in Algeria and justice for the Algerians. Also to be acknowledged with gratitude are «he statements of a number of speakers in this Assembly, particularly the statement of Mr. Aiken, Minister for External Affairs and Chairman of the delegation of Ireland, for their unequivocal stand for justice in Algeria on the basis of the principles of the United Nations Charter. 79. Everywhere, Arabs find it hard to pass over in silence the fact that about 200,000 men, women, children and old people have already been massacred in Algeria. In spite of all appearances in that unhappy land, we refuse to believe that democratic principles and the principles of the Charter are interpreted or applied differently when the question of their application is raised in Europe, in Africa or in Asia. We believe that respect for human life should be the same everywhere.