UN General Assembly
1951

Self-sufficiency is not the prerogative of a State, and least of all of the smaller States. The burden of rearmament, therefore, becomes transcendent in the sense that it curtails the amount of cooperation and assistance based on mutual goodwill. For this reason it becomes particularly important to resolve the world crisis, with its accompanying armaments race, in order to devote all efforts to raising economic and social standards — not alone in the Middle East but also in other parts of Africa, Asia, America and even Europe.