UN General Assembly
1971

172. Neither do I wish to omit a justified reference to one important aspect of United Nations action in this field of development. In a few months' time the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment will be meeting in Stockholm. Spain, which is in the full process of industrialization, wishes to avoid a confrontation between economic growth and the deterioration of the environment. We firmly believe that it is possible to combine economic and social development with the preservation of the ecological environment, and we are prepared to seek formulas for uniting them. 173 . I should also like to refer to a problem of increasing gravity which affects the physical, mental and moral health of peoples. I am speaking of the widespread consumption of narcotics causing general concern which the Spanish Government fully shares.