UN General Assembly
1982

197. In addition to efforts to launch the global negotiations, Japan believes that all of us are responsible for assuring the success of the sixth session of UNCTAD to be held next June. The Conference has ambitiously tackled the problem of promoting international economic co-operation at the global level in the fields of trade and development, and since its first session in 1964 it has achieved concrete results. Japan strongly hopes that with such a history and such experience behind it, UNCTAD will at its sixth session seek realistic and workable solutions to the problems of trade and development, which constitute one of the most important issues facing mankind today, I wish to reaffirm Japan's resolve to participate actively in these efforts. 198. I wish also to take this opportunity to appear strongly to all States to ratify as soon as possible the Agreement Establishing the Common Fund for Commodities," the greatest achievement of North- South dialogue in the 1970s, so that this agreement will enter into force by the target date, which is the end of next September.