UN General Assembly
1952

19. Once again the honour of participating in the work of the Economic and Social Council has fallen to Cuba. I may safely assert that the Cuban delegation endeavoured, at the fourteenth session of that body, to make the most effective possible contribution to the cause of the economic development of under-developed countries. That endeavour was not based on a narrow parochial outlook, but was made in the hope of achieving general benefits for all countries, regardless of their geographical situation, in which men suffer poverty, ignorance, ill health and under-nourishment.