UN General Assembly
1960

36. We live in a world with tremendous wealth, with modern technological facilities capable of ensuring higher standards of living for the entire population of our planet. A substantial reduction of military expenditures would open new avenues for making use, to an ever larger extent, of these huge possibilities. 37. The attainment of the aims of the United Nations is inextricably linked to the fulfilment of the aspirations of all peoples to freedom and independence, to the definite and radical abolition of colonial rule in all its forms. It is high time that in the conflict between the enslaved peoples and the colonial Powers the United Nations should take its side, resolutely and without any reservation, with the enslaved peoples.