UN General Assembly
1982

international division of labor. At the beginning of my statement, I referred to the erosion of collective responsibility which is not only due to the fact that each one of us wishes to propose or, in the worst of situations, to impose its own solution. In this respect we must first of all revitalize and strengthen what should properly be called the pillars of the Organization, that is to say, all the organs or machinery for consultation and decision making at the regional and intergovernmental levels, taking care, however, to avoid further polarizing positions, and adopting convergent approaches in the interest of security for all in all spheres. The solution of conflicts will thus be made easier and one can even hope that conflicts will even be avoided. This requires, however, that we examine our priorities in the light of the permanent interdependence of problems which will continue to confront a world of increasing solidarity. In our view, it is not too late to check confrontation hither between East and West, North