UN General Assembly
1965

140. The Byelorussian delegation continues to support, as it always has in the past, all effective measures directed against the colonialists, in favour of the sovereign right of peoples to independent political and economic development. 141. The Byelorussian delegation is concerned with important, complex problems relating to general economic and social progress. We are sincerely concerned, in particular, with the problems of countries which have lagged in their development through the fault of the colonial Powers. Their rate of economic development is far from adequate, their share of world trade is decreasing, and their access to foreign exchange is extremely limited. This situation is wholly intolerable. It is the duty of the United Nations to give more effective assistance to the newly independent countries, and in particular to compel those responsible for their backwardness to compensate them, and also to help developing countries in their struggle to prevent domination by foreign monopolies and to defend their sovereignty over their natural resources.