UN General Assembly
1960

155. Consequently, it is legally impossible for the United Nations or its Secretary-General to invalidate or modify such a constitutionally legal measure as the deposition of Mr. Lumumba, The stubborn refusal of certain parties to acknowledge or recognize the neutral position taken by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in connexion with this decision by the Chief of State is due to the fact that they wish to substitute themselves for the Congolese people and to choose those who are to govern the Congo, giving their preference to an individual rather than to a regime. From a strictly legal point of view, the United Nations cannot invalidate the internal laws of a country. The Secretary-General’s task was to assist the Central Government, but the United Nations is not entitled to decide who is the head of that Central Government.