UN General Assembly
1963

140. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 1964 will no doubt be an outstanding event in the history of international economic cooperation. In particular, the attainment of even the modest targets of the Development Decade may depend on the concrete decisions taken at the Conference and on their effective implementation. The developing countries look to the Conference to help them reach a stage of self-sustaining growth and to raise and stabilize the earnings they derive from exports. I am sure that their hopes are shared by all. They are certainly shared by my Government, which is now actively preparing for our participation in the Conference. In so doing we will be guided by our earnest wish that the examination of the many topics on the Conference agenda may take place in a spirit of goodwill and on the basis of hard facts, so as to make the decisions and recommendations of the Conference realistic and useful. All countries have a joint interest in the integrated growth of the world economy as a whole.