UN General Assembly
1960

180. This discouraging development led the provisional government of the Algerian Republic to draw the obvious conclusions. On 22 August 1960 it announced: "The provisional government of the Algerian Republic has taken note of General de Gaulle’s refusal to negotiate on the conditions and safeguards for a free consultation of the Algerian people. French policy is depriving self-determination of all democratic content and seeks to impose by force a status which would tend to ’Balkanize’ Algeria. In these circumstances, the provisional government of the Algerian Republic considers that the consultation of the Algerian people must be conducted by means of a referendum organized and supervised by the United Nations.”