UN General Assembly
1961

39,. This Congolese national hero had appealed to the United Nations to help him maintain the independence and territorial integrity of his country. It is an incontrovertible fact that the result of our Organization's intervention in the Congo is far from doing us credit, for it is difficult to show that United Nations officers were not implicated in the murder of Prime Minister Lumumba. But this tragedy did not dampen the ardent patriotism, of the Congolese nationalists and today there is a new Government in the Congo. Like that of Lumumba, it desires to be unitary and has decided to practise a policy of popular emancipation. United Nations troops are still in the Congo. It is our hope that the presence of the United Nations in the Congo should this time effectively help to consolidate the unity of the country. But v/e have reason to be alarmed at the present course of the Katangese secession, incited and maintained by certain Members of our Organization.