UN General Assembly
1967

120. I am happy to pay a simultaneous tribute here to the French Government and to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, both of which have proposed that the industrialized countries should annually devote 1 per cent of their gross national income to aid for the Third World. That peaceful effort would be, after all, quite modest compared to the effort being expended by those same States in bearing the excessive burden of their arms expenditures. 121. However, it cannot be denied that African economic development and social progress cannot be fully realized so long as Africa remains an isolated arena in which the ideologies and interests of non-African Powers have confronted and continue to confront each other. 122. Above all else, the African continent needs stability and peace, which our peoples deeply long for.