UN General Assembly
1982

eminent personalities have reiterated the need to restructure fundamentally the economic relationship between those that are the most prosperous and those that are still the poorest. Then came the General Assembly resolutions on the new international economic order and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States. The latter could figure in the book of world records as the instrument most frequently violated. The same happened with the 1974 Paris Conference, which throughout its three long years brought nothing new to the solution of world problems; with the various meetings of UNCTAD; the ministerial meeting of GATT; the Conference of Science and Technology for Development; the Tokyo Round; the annual rite of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and FAO; the proposal of the non-aligned countries on global negotiations; the Brandt report; the Cancun summit and the New Delhi and Oslo meetings. These comings and goings of officials, diplomats, economists and politicians have achieved little. Generosity has run out; these are difficult times; such are the phrases we read in foreign ministry