UN General Assembly
1970

27. And yet the volume of expenditure for armaments in many of these rich countries is such that, if those Powers possess the material strength to destroy the world, they also possess the necessary means to free 2,300 million men from the chains of hunger, disease and ignorance. Why cannot the extraordinary progress of science and technology be used to make possible the utilization of the natural resources existing in most developing countries to improve living conditions for the populations of those countries? 28. We are still very far from reaching the noble ideal which inspired the authors of the Charter of this Organization when they stated that improving the economic and social conditions of man was one of the major objectives which all Member States should strive to attain.