UN General Assembly
1960

28. In a message to the people, His Majesty declared: “The end of the state of emergency and the return to normal conditions prevailing among the people will ensure the peace and harmony of our nation. Thus, all the efforts of our Ministers in the Government and all the machinery and revenue of our Government can now be concentrated on development projects which will bring comfort and happiness to our subjects." 29. We can now look forward to more intensified efforts in the social and economic development of our people. Side by side with our policy of industrial development, pursued progressively within the framework of our policy of inducements to local and foreign capital, an intensive programme is now being launched in the direction of rural development. This is the keynote of our present task, and it reflects the desire of the Government to raise the living standards of the rural people who constitute the bulk of the population and the strength of the nation.