UN General Assembly
1961

67. For the African delegations, as for all delegations which attach due importance to the struggle of the colonial peoples for national independence, the problem of imperialism and colonialism is intimately bound up with the problem of disarmament; that is to say, the solution of one is impossible without the solution of the other. No universally acceptable disarmament programme can be devised and put into effect unless the fundamental problem of imperialism and colonialism is also resolved. It is therefore proper to recognize the special responsibility certain Western colonial Powers bear in the search for an equitable solution to the disarmament problem. No one would think today of asking the Algerian people to renounce its armed struggle for its inalienable right to independence, when more than half a million foreign soldiers are violently opposing the expression of its will,