UN General Assembly
1959

81. The people of Israel as well as those of other new States have, I am sure, learned that, once independence is attained, it ceases to be an end in itself and becomes only a beginning. The ink on the declaration of independence is hardly dry when new and under-developed countries face the perplexing problems and pressures of establishing stable government, security and decent conditions of life. Independence gives them the chance to meet those challenges in their own way. But freedom does not exist in a vacuum. And with the attainment of independence by country after country the emphasis shifts to the substance of that freedom, to matters of economic development, scientific advance and Social betterment. These are vital questions and, in so far as they involve problems beyond the powers of these new States to solve, they are such as must be of concern to us all. There are perhaps many categories into which the countries of the world may be divided. But there can be no doubt that a division based on a high standard of living against a sub-minimal standard, a division of those that have and those that are struggling to have, is fraught with far-reaching dangers.