UN General Assembly
1958

101. The delegation of Costa Rica therefore welcomes every effort made in the United Nations to achieve disarmament. We hope that, if an agreement on total disarmament cannot be reached between the great Powers, at least some agreement may be reached to limit with safety the manufacture of implements of war. Consistent with this desire for peace, which is so strongly felt by all Costa Ricans, my delegation is following with particular interest the efforts being made here to regulate atomic tests and to use this tremendous energy in the service of humanity and not for the total destruction of civilization, 102. My delegation has noted that economic studies are growing in importance every day. We have also decided, therefore, to support any proposal to promote these studies or give them their due priority, particularly in view of the many grave implications of the serious condition of under-development in some of the Latin American countries.