UN General Assembly
1961

91. If we may express a hope, it is that the heavy sacrifices accepted for over a year by the Congolese people have not promoted selfish ends. 92. We should also like to prevent any recurrence of such acts; like many of our friends, we fear that Africa - may become a hunting-ground for certain ideologies or counter-ideologies whose protagonists are now turning towards the non-aligned countries, towards the young independent nations of Africa whom they consider to be an easy prey. 93. All that we ask today, if we are truly to seek peace in Africa, is that material interests should give way so that moral interests may triumph, and that behind the scenes there should be no more pulling of strings— always for selfish ends—strings which only those who pull them cannot see. If economic interests can for a while yield pride of place to humanitarian interests, all the rifts between our brothers will be healed. That is the dearest wish of my Government.