UN General Assembly
1967

86. When the newly independent States came to weigh for the first time the tremendous responsibilities they were being called upon to assume, they found themselves faced with the problem of the great revolutionary era into which they had been plunged: appropriate political and administrative organization, economic situation, education and science, social structures, and so on. In the face of these problems, unparalleled complexity, the new Members of the United Nations family, especially considering the fact of their under-development, were called upon to show a great deal of realism and wisdom. They had to base their ideal on the great truth that any lasting development requires an enlightened and honest administration dedicated to the common good, a rational planning of work, a prudent and wise utilization of resources and a mobilization of all vital energies in a free but effectual manner in order to undertake the most pressing research tasks; a deep horror of administrative corruption, of peculation, of unjustified and prolonged idleness; and, finally, the systematic condemnation of favouritism, of waste, of ostentation and of discrimination. Thus, from the dawn of their independence, the new sovereign States had need of this healthy outlook for the sake of their national evolution: in brief, a solid moral philosophy of development.