UN General Assembly
1965

153. Of course, the capacity of many countries to cope with such problems is drastically reduced by the inescapable fact of their under-development. Frankly, the Somali Republic is sceptical of the prospects of achieving a 5 per cent growth rate for developing countries during the present United Nations Development Decade. The rapid transformation of the Special Fund into an augmented capital development fund is therefore highly desirable, and we would urge on the under-developed countries an approach to aid which does not start from an attitude of charity, but from an attitude of determination to make the maximum possible use of the world's resources in the shortest possible time.