UN General Assembly
1956

13. Speaking on 22 November 1956 in the general debate [589th meeting], Mr. Pineau, the representative of France, accused the Soviet Union of trying to hamper any settlement of the Suez problem and to aggravate the situation in the Middle East. This assertion by Mr. Pineau is a crude distortion of reality and is nothing more than slander directed against the Soviet Union. The whole world knows that it was the Soviet Union which consistently tried and is still trying to bring about the peaceful settlement of the Suez problem with due regard to the interests of Egypt and of the other States concerned. It is enough to recall the Soviet Union’s efforts to find a generally acceptable procedure for the peaceful settlement of the Suez question, at the London Conference, in the Security Council and here in the General Assembly.