UN General Assembly
1968

134. We should like to express here our warmest gratitude to France and to the European Economic Community of which France is a member for the valuable and substantial assistance they have given us in our struggle to overcome underdevelopment. The assistance given us by the United Nations, too, is considerable, and it is because we are aware of the assistance it is furnishing us that we shall not hesitate to call upon it again for help and for the necessary capital in the form of long-term loans in order to complete the other major projects planned for our economic development. 135. We have great hopes of obtaining those loans from the recently created United Nations Capital Development Fund. We are also counting upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Indeed, because of its mineral wealth, Gabon is made for industry, and so it may contemplate establishing a modern industry that will enable it to develop a dynamic economy capable of providing our people with the benefits of a twentieth-century industrial society.