UN General Assembly
1966

110. Peace and prosperity are inseparable. Peacekeeping is a function of effective international cooperation, which in turn can be effective only if it makes a contribution to international prosperity, I am gratified in this context to draw your attention to Her Majesty Queen Juliana's speech from the Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament only ten days ago. This speech expresses the resolve of the Netherlands Government, notwithstanding the severe financial restrictions imposed upon our economy, further to increase Netherlands spending on development aid, which for 1967 consequently exceeds by 10 per cent this year's figure. 111. But all efforts at the national level will yield only limited results as long as there is no worldwide effort for the furthering of prosperity of the developing nations. We are all agreed that up to now the United Nations Development Decade has been disappointing. But there is nothing to prevent us from using its remaining three years to conceive a new infra-structure of co-operation between all participating agencies, and to draw up a master plan for the following ten years.