UN General Assembly
1993

rampant in the assistance programmes of the Organization, proclaiming only the virtues of the market and of private enterprise. Defending only these options means separating populations of developing countries from the real production of wealth. This accentuates the inequalities, attacks true democracy, social development and the right of human beings to achieve a productive and dignified life. We the countries of the South are no more than statistics to the North. Meticulous studies are carried out to determine that we will be born in greater numbers, that more of us will fall to disease and that more of us will die. The quality of life of the generations that have been born and have died while I speak would demand that those bulky files where tragedies are noted in detail, would also have the power to feed and heal the needy. Simply knowing that we are dying in the countries of the South on this planet will not prevent us from being buried. The surviving third world has once again placed its