UN General Assembly
1961

172. Indeed, do we realize that the number of Algerian men and women who died in the struggle for freedom exceeds the losses suffered by more than one great Power in the war to free the world from the menace of Hitler? The United Nations remembers the Korean war in which sixteen of its Members took part. Those sixteen countries together did not lose as many men as Algeria alone. 173. We should bear in mind all those sacrifices and resume without delay the negotiations which have been suspended — the Algerian people have agreed to negotiate for their independence and the protection of their territorial integrity. 174. In other countries, in Angola, Portuguese Guinea, South West Africa, South Africa, the Congo, Palestine — I shall not name them all — blood has flowed freely in the struggle for independence or racial equality or national unity — as freely as that shed, at least once in its history, by every nation represented here, in its struggle for liberation.