UN General Assembly
1962

49. My delegation believes that the role of the regional economic commissions is a necessary and an important one and we support the general trend towards decentralisation of those activities of the United Nations which, being related to specific local needs, can best be carried out on a regional basis. The Economic Commission for Africa is now firmly established, and is proving a useful instrument in unified economic planning for all of Africa. 50. We commend the work done during the past year in the Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space. The participation of my country's representative in this work underlines the universal importance of the new problems now being added to a world already full of unsolved problems by the opening vistas of outer space. If the ideological conflicts of both East and West are not permitted to invade this latest conquest of man there will be hope that all mankind will benefit from this fast treasury of new knowledge.