UN General Assembly
1961

137. In this connexion, it- will never be possible to exaggerate the responsibility of those Belgians who took part in the Elisabethville coup and protected it. The Congolese Government was compelled after that event to call for the military assistance of the United Nations—which was very promptly to be blocked in its efforts by the obstinacy and ill will of provincial President Tshombe. 138. This unwise attitude nearly brought about a grave split, a year ago, in the United Nations. When one asks oneself what justification provincial President Tshomb6 could have thought he had for pursuing a policy so dangerous for world peace, one finds no reasonable reply.