UN General Assembly
1967

44. Before I close, however, it would be ungracious of me in the extreme if I were not to stress once again my Government’s appreciation of and gratitude for the assistance which we continue to receive from the economic, social and technical agencies of the United Nations. I have said that I would not indulge in the luxury of repetition of things already said before, but this is one exception where repetition is justified. As I said last year, the assistance which we as a developing country continue to receive from these agencies is of the greatest value to us in our struggle to create in Malawi a fully viable economy and to achieve a state of true economic as well as political independence. Without that aid our task would be immeasurably more difficult, and I wish to place on record once again our acknowledgement of the debt of gratitude which we owe not only to the United Nations and its specialized agencies themselves, but to those Member States of the world body whose persistently generous contributions to the coffers of the United Nations continue to make It possible for those agencies to carry on their tasks.