UN General Assembly
1962

58; The dangers which the armaments race holds for all mankind and the immense advantages which all countries would derive from a stable and lasting peace are so obvious that it is unnecessary to dwell on them further. We the developing countries, whose main concern is to promote the-rapid; advancement of our peoples, should simply like to express our surprise at the negative attitude adopted by the highly developed countries. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that if the material means and the extraordinarily advanced scientific knowledge which twentieth-century man has at his disposal today were used exclusively for the benefit of mankind, it would be possible to rebuild a new world, a world of happiness and prosperity, for ever freed from the nightmare of the hunger, poverty and ignorance of which three-quarters of mankind are still victims.