UN General Assembly
1966

102. Taking account of the concern of Member States to develop their national economies, the United Nations has put into operation a whole series of programmes, mechanisms and international agencies which form a useful complement to the ties which are being formed among States in the fields of economic, technological, scientific and cultural co-operation. Of course, no international mechanism, no matter how perfect, could replace a State's own initiative in drawing up its development policy or its responsibility for the implementation of that policy. On the other hand, the obligations of the United Nations machinery and its specialized agencies are many as regards exchanges of experience and ideas in spheres of common interest, access to what has become the joint patrimony of the contemporary world, and the intensification and acceleration of the efforts made by the United Nations in response to the requests of Member States which are putting such programmes into effect.