UN General Assembly
1959

142. Historical and geographical factors of various kinds have exercised their influence in the creation of States with very different opportunities for wellbeing and progress. Some are favoured by nature with a wealth of natural resources or with conditions which make human efforts highly profitable. There are others which have neither the resources nor the favourable conditions. Others, again, possess resources but lack the material or human means to develop them. Then there are some countries which, as was once said of some territory, are like a beggar seated on a golden throne but dying of starvation and poverty.