UN General Assembly
1961

159. The results achieved in the economic field have led to a rapid rise in the material and cultural level of our people. The growth in the consumption of industrial and food products, the building of new dwellings on a large scale, the ever growing number of school children and students, free education and medical care, and the remarkable developments in science, literature and art are striking evidence of this fact. As a result of steps taken by our State, real wages have increased during the last ten years by 85 per cent. Romania is at present carrying out a six-year economic development plan, as a result of which industrial production will have doubled between 1959 and 1965 and agricultural production will have increased considerably. 160. The Romanian people wishes to go on with this peaceful constructive work and to reap the fruits of its labour in a world free from the threat of a nuclear disaster. 161. The relations of the People's Republic of Romania