UN General Assembly
1960

210. For the past two months the United Nations Security Council has been dealing with the affairs of the Republic of the Congo, which is still suffering the birth pangs of independence. We have nothing but sympathy for the people of the Congo who find themselves in a state of political and economic chaos caused by a complete breakdown of administrative machinery of every kind. We feel that the greatest help the United Nations can and should render to the Congo is in the field of the restoration of normal economic and political life by providing for a dependable administrative machinery. Unfortunately, the humanitarian question of helping the people of the Congo to resume their normal life and economic activity has become mixed up with political questions of a national and international character. Even the role and the activity of the United Nations in the Congo has been subjected to controversy and bitter attack from certain quarters. As my Government has already expounded its stand on the Congolese question at the fourth emergency special session of the General Assembly, I shall for the present be content merely with briefly outlining the considerations that have influenced our approach to the Congo problem.