UN General Assembly
1964

87. My country's recognition of communist China has provoked anxiety in some Western circles. The Washington Post, a United States newspaper, states: "...France is in competition with communist China in its own sphere." This point was well taken by the newspaper Terre Africaine in an editorial entitled "Independence and Friendship": "... This is going a bit far. A Central African proverb says: 'One should not throw away one's old game-bag just because one has made a new one.' We in the Central African Republic, apart from all material problems, consider that relations with the different countries of the world lead towards better understanding between nations and, consequently, towards peace, that greatest hope of all men."