UN General Assembly
1960

92. My suggestion is that central Africa, through negotiations between Africans, should become an area of law in the sense in which I used that phrase before: that agreement should be arrived at between the nations concerned not to change existing boundaries, or settle disputes, by force. Such an agreement might also, we would hope, provide that, as President Nkrumah in his speech before the Assembly [869th meeting] so wisely suggested, nuclear weapons — and for myself I would add other means of mass destruction — should not be introduced to the area; that military forces should be limited to what is required for the maintenance of internal order; that no outside force, except United Nations forces at the request of the countries concerned, should be admitted to the area and that the United Nations, with the concurrence of the major Powers, should be requested to supervise and guarantee the maintenance of the agreement. Such an approach seems to be in harmony with the present-day aspirations of the African peoples. It is our earnest hope that if agreement on some such lines is achieved by African States it will be respected and supported by all other Powers.