UN General Assembly
1962

170. I ask leave to refer now to the Conference on the Problems of Economic Development which was held in Cairo during the month of July this year and attended by thirty-six countries from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Addressing the Conference at its opening meeting, the President of the United Arab Republic said: "This conference represents hope for progress and for peace. The conference realizes that these two great hopes cannot be reached without widespread international co-operation, the scope of which would not only embrace the participating States, but would extend beyond that sphere to encompass the whole world, in the profound belief that progress is for all mankind and peace their right, transcending all frontiers." The President of the United Arab Republic added: "The Conference does not represent an alliance of nations aspiring to development while bearing a grudge against those States which have gone ahead or being envious of what they have achieved. "The Conference in this sense represents a new kind of international endeavour. "The word 'against' is not listed in its agenda. "The word 'for' is in every line of its agenda. "We are all for progress and for peace."