UN General Assembly
1963

113. We in Nepal, therefore, view our problems in this light. We are convinced that whatever political system we evolve must be capable of delivering economic goods, of ensuring adequate economic development and, as I have already said, of absorbing modern science and technology in our economy. We do not say that other values do not matter; but for us economic development is a challenge which we can only ignore at our own peril. 114. Our foreign policy, therefore, is directed towards highlighting not the ideological differences, however important they may be, but the economic differences which, unless minimized, are bound to become a threat to world peace. For this reason, we have already welcomed the launching of the United Nations Development Decade as a positive step in the right direction.