UN General Assembly
1972

220. The truth is that every people is in quest of its happiness, and the foreign aid it receives should only be a supplement to its development. It is only through this approach that co-operation can be lasting and profitable. Genuine aid should help the recipient country to do without aid. 221. In order to make our contacts more fruitful it is high time that we considered the concepts of co-operation and mutual assistance in order to avoid any form of domination. It is also to be stressed that co-operation is not confined to trade, and for it to be equitable the cooperating parties must have absolutely identical views. It is not a question of developing countries measuring the assistance of more fortunate countries with a purely quantitative yardstick; the important thing is that what they receive be given without any political strings attached, such as the forfeiture of sovereignty, or interference in domestic affairs on the part of the donor country.