UN General Assembly
1961

30. The fact that we are led to wonder how we are to find a way out of the present Berlin situation proves that the problem exists. Nevertheless, we think the main reason why it has assumed its present importance and acuteness is that the interests of the two great contending Powers are directly committed there. And this can prejudice a proper evaluation of the importance of other situations, no less serious, outside Europe. 31. I say this as representative of a European country for which, geographically and politically, this problem is neither remote nor unimportant,, It nevertheless seems to us that, objectively, by their real content and specific weight — that is, by the way in which they concern the basic interests of peoples committed to independence and freedom — problems such as those of Algeria, Angola, the Congo, Laos and Cuba are certainly more serious.