UN General Assembly
1964

27. Spain has never sought material profit in Africa. We were never attracted there by the slightest ambition for economic gain; on the contrary, we can point to a history of sacrifices, which at times have demanded considerable efforts. In the cities and villages which we founded in Africa or whose growth and development we helped, we have always shown sincere feelings of brotherhood towards the indigenous people. There is no sphere of life, from the hospitality of the home to the education of the children, in which the desires of the protectors and the protected, the administrators and the administered, Spaniards and Africans, were not constantly linked. This has been so at all times and it is so today.