UN General Assembly
1960

5. Many of the problems of the new nations call, not for artificially contrived solutions but for an assessment of the action appropriate to the facts of their social and economic life. 6. Uruguay, which has succeeded in eliminating illiteracy entirely, which has dramatically reduced infant mortality, which has proclaimed those human rights that, according to the Charter constitute the very essence of human dignity, which has created a new and progressive social system, is ready to cooperate with the nations which have emerged from the colonial system and offers them the help of its technicians, educators and scientists as the best way of demonstrating its solidarity with them through international action.