UN General Assembly
1952

106. So far, we have shown that a great programme of economic development of backward areas must be undertaken at the international level for three main reasons: First, the duty of human solidarity in the face of poverty; secondly, the need to ensure world economic stability by creating new consumer markets, and to settle the problem created by the permanent dislocation of the balance of trade of Western Europe; thirdly, the necessity of strengthening, both materially and spiritually, the peoples who have been called upon to collaborate in the work of the United Nations on behalf of peace and against aggression.