UN General Assembly
1959

66. The Cyprus question was a United Nations question "par excellence". Since 1954, it was the object of the constant interest and deliberations of the General Assembly. Greece, within these halls, assumed the role of spokesman on behalf of the legitimate aspirations to freedom of the people of Cyprus and of their heroic struggle to attain it. She demanded self-determination for the Cypriots. Ab is well known, self-determination as a principle, as a right, is not an end in itself. It is not a solution. It represents the road to a solution. In this respect, the move generated within the General Assembly, during its successive sessions, in favour of an independent Cyprus, helped the Cypriots in their quest for freedom, to exercise their choice in a practicable way. It also helped all the parties concerned to discern a possibility for agreement. Such a line was in conformity with the relative provisions of the Charter and concurred with the way followed by almost all other dependent territories liberated from colonial rule by accession to independence.