UN General Assembly
1969

fairness confess that I am not satisfied with the record so far achieved by the United Nations. The goal set for the first United Nations Development Decade, namely, an over-all 5 per cent rate of growth of the national income of developing countries, has not been attained. International aid has remained practically static despite the increased per capita income of developed countries and is in most cases still short of the proposed level of 1 per cent of their gross national product. The expectations that had been entertained when the first development programme was inrugurated in 1960 have gradually changed to disenchantment. 80. The flow of international aid depends to a large extent on the response of the donor countries; the application of a substantial part of those resources, however, is a matter for which this Organization is responsible. Mindful of the fact that international aid will for some time remain the main source of external assistance to developing countries and of the unlikelihood that the size of that aid will expand appreciably, this Organization must make greater efforts to