UN General Assembly
1962

30. This is the time to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. In accordance with the undertakings that it gave immediately after the war, France has restored full sovereignty to nearly all the African countries that used to be its colonies. Whatever difficulties there may have been from time to time over de-colonization, France deserves our friendship our respect and our esteem. From this rostrum, we can assure France and General de Gaulle, its amazing leader, of our warmest sympathy and of our admiration for the courage with which it has settled the colonial problem, particularly in Algeria, where it was extremely complex and painful. Today all the French-speaking countries represented in this Assembly are establishing fresh relations with Franco,