"My country and I recognize with joy and emotion that the Congo has acceded on June 30, 1960, in full accord and friendships with Belgium, to independence and international sovereignty."

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Lumumba Assails Colonialism as Congo Is Freed King Baudouin in his Speech at the Ceremony of the Proclamation of the Congo's Independence in Leopoldville on June 30, 1960.