UN General Assembly
1968

171. We in Lesotho have become increasingly aware that political independence without the concomitant economic and social reforms is meaningless. As we approach the end of the 1960s we have Become all the more conscious that the United Nations Development Decade has been the decade of discouragement and disappointment. The closing days of the 1960s are, indeed, characterized by political instability, internal strife and economic stagnation in many developing countries. Even countries richly endowed with natural resources woefully lack trained manpower and technical skills to develop and apply them for their speedy development. Not only capital assistance is required. Assistance is necessary in manpower training and in the application of the large pool of scientific and technological knowledge to accelerate the pace of economic and social development.