UN General Assembly
1962

181. The developing countries fully realize that the only way of narrowing the economic gap between nations is for them to reach a stage of self-sustained economic growth, and they accept primary responsibility for their own economic and social progress. It was in recognition of the need to exert and coordinate maximum national efforts that they call ad the Cairo Conference in July of this year, in order to work out a practical approach that would be effective in solving the problem of economic development in all its ramifications and in securing eventual economic emancipation. The Cairo Declaration of Developing Countries, which embodies this approach, is on the agenda for the current session [agenda item 84] — sufficient testimony of its great importance for the entire international community.