UN General Assembly
1960

27. The people of the Congo are entitled to-build up their country in peace and freedom. Intervention by other nations in their internal affairs would deny them that right and create a focus of conflict in the heart of Africa. The issue thus posed in the Congo could well arise elsewhere in Africa. The resolution of this issue will determine whether the United Nations is able to protect not only the new nations of Africa, but also other countries against outside pressures. 28. It is the smaller nations that have the greatest stake in the effective functioning of the United Nations. 29. If the United Nations system is successfully subverted in Africa, the world will be on its way back to the traditional exercise of power politics, in which small countries will be used as pawns by aggressive major Powers. Any nation, seduced by glittering promises into becoming a cat’s paw for an imperialistic Power, thereby undermines the United Nations and places in jeopardy the independence of itself and all others.