UN General Assembly
1960

163. No one, not even the most sceptical, can any longer doubt that the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic is henceforth the only organization representative of the Algerian nation. To maintain the injustice that is being done to it, to allow the continuance of a war as atrocious as it is stupid, would be purely and simply to sanction the terrible threat of the maintenance of the cold war and, what is even more terrible, of war itself, with all its horrible train of crimes and murders. 164. I should like for a moment to explain the Algerian situation, with which some of you may be unfamiliar. When the President of the French Republic stated that Algeria had the right to self-determination, it was thought that cease-fire negotiations might open the door to negotiations from which peace would result. Our Algerian friends agreed to go to Melun for discussions, but they were told that they could discuss only a cease-fire and could not, at any time, take up the question of guarantees for self-determination.