UN General Assembly
1959

44. I wish to make the position of the Government of Ghana quite clear in this matter. In the first place, we maintain that the nuclear Powers, namely, the. United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, or any other Power, should stop manufacturing nuclear weapons, and should not even test those they have already manufactured, but should rather destroy such weapons. Secondly, we maintain that no State, including France, should test nuclear weapons anywhere on the African continent, because we, the Africans, want peace in Africa and in the world. And thirdly, we appeal to France not to conduct any nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert, because such tests will endanger the lives of all human beings in the Sahara region and in Africa generally, including the lives of all French people and other Europeans or non-Africans who now live in Africa.