UN General Assembly
1963

37. We shall overcome our economic backwardness by a natural process if we succeed in establishing a rate of development fast enough to exceed our rate of population growth. We have to invest in both agriculture and communications; we want to give priority to the development of national industries. We need the assistance of the more developed countries which can make available to us the funds required for smooth development. We are in favour of bilateral aid, but equally we share the hope expressed by the Secretary- General of the United Nations that all economic and social activities will be placed under the sign of the United Nations Development Decade. The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas is an event the importance of which we fully recognize. That Conference has placed within our reach the modern technology which is the first requirement for all development. The second requirement for development is the availability of sufficient resources; these we shall obtain thanks to the regulation of international trade which will we hope, be the result of the trade conference to be held within the framework of the Decade.