UN General Assembly
1963

107. Although much is being said about the need to promote the progress of less developed countries, and much has been done by the United Nations agencies as well as individual Member States, the gap still remains tragically and disastrously wide between the many millions who go without food, schools and medical care, and those who have the best of advantages in all these fields. 108. This, next to the preservation of peace and indeed co-ordinate with it, is the greatest challenge of our time. It admits of no single answer but has to be tackled on a very broad front: capital, export trade, manpower training, agricultural reform, industrial development and improved social services, particularly education and health. The attention of international agencies is more and more being focused on these multiple needs.