UN General Assembly
1961

127. The Government, which has been approved almost unanimously by the Chambers, is composed of men from all regions of the country, of all the main parties and of all political tendencies—if we except the great absentee, South Katanga. It was selected on the basis of the very principle which inspired our decision to form, at this critical moment in our history, a Government of national unity; for the future of the Congo depends on mutual trust, unity and combined effort. 128. The very nature of our country decrees the solidarity of all its provinces: our water and railway transport system, the distribution of our natural resources and of our various ethnic groups all go to demonstrate that we are members of one another. 129. Eighty years of common history and the mingling of all our peoples have also had the effect of tightening the bonds between us and making us a nation one and indivisible.