UN General Assembly
1957

49. It will be admitted on all sides that the Force proved to be very effective for the purpose for which it was created — the securing and supervising of a cease-fire. It was a Force which was created for limited purposes and, as such it was different in character from the kind of force envisaged in the Charter. But, while it was not entirely based on a new concept of United Nations supervisory action, it certainly implied an enlarged concept. 50. Whatever might have been the criticisms, the intervention of the United Nations through an emergency force in November 1956 certainly brought about the acceptance of a cease-fire and the subsequent withdrawal of the Anglo-French and Israel forces from Egyptian territory. Its action also reinforced the need on the part of the United Nations to equip itself better to meet such contingencies in the future.