UN General Assembly
1976

222. In view of the alarming breadth of the gap between the most developed and the least advanced countries, we believe that emphasis should be placed on the transfer of technology as a process which can lead to a reduction of tensions and shortages. Our universities, institutes and laboratories are prepared to cooperate in die international effort to augment existing scientific and technological capacities, and we hope that progress will be made at both the regional and international levels in the various preparatory meetings for the United Nations conference on science and technology for development, to be held in 1979. In particular, we will support concrete measures for the application of science and technology to bring about the establishment of a new international economic order which fully utilizes scientific potential in solving key national, regional and world problems.