UN General Assembly
1963

129. We are at present witnessing a real acceleration of the process of development in all fields, and one of the principal aims of technical assistance should beto enable us to obtain the greatest possible benefit from this acceleration and also to permit us to participate in it to the extent of our means and of those made available to us, because the aim of all technical assistance should be to make the recipient a participant. 130. Our desire to make our own contribution extends also to the work of the United Nations, and that is why I now must speak of the part now played in it by Africa. At present, there are thirty-two African Member States of our Organization. This number will probably increase to thirty-five, perhaps even to thirty-six, in what we hope may be the near future. Surely it is only reasonable, in the circumstances, that, since we make up almost a third of the Organization, we should call for a more active and equitable participation in it?