UN General Assembly
1961

76. To sum up, the Government of Mali has endeavoured to pick out of the jumble of ideas on international technical co-operation, and with due regard for the experience already acquired in that field, those basic principles which must be established as fundamental conditions and without which there can be no really effective co-operation. These are: (1) The liquidation of colonialism, as a prerequisite for the establishment of any technical co-operation machinery to promote the economic growth of the countries to be developed. (2) A large increase in assistance to those countries of Africa which have acceded to independence and which have received little or no international technical assistance because of their previous colonial status. (3) Technical co-operation not based on any standard formulae or universal pattern. (4) The necessary co-ordination of efforts and promotion of technical assistance to be based on a plan or on a thorough preliminary study of the country's resources and the aims of the development. (5) A major factor in the effectiveness of co-operation is an increase in and the general adoption of pre-investment measures.