UN General Assembly
1969

also show a greater sense of realism, so that the Second United Nations Development Decade can be a decade of practical success. We believe that the next Development Decade, to which the Third World is looking with renewed hope and confidence, should not become only a matter of drawing up commitments. It should, in equal terms, be a question of how to put into practical effect the means and resources at the disposal of the international community. Of equal importance is our realization that the preparations for the new Decade must be made in a harmonious atmosphere of active co-operation between the developed and the developing countries. It is only through the genuinely co-operative endeavour of both groups that fruitful results can be expected and achieved. 116. I need hardly emphasize again that the widening gap between the developed nations on the one hand, and the developing world comprising Asia, Africa and Latin America on the other, continues to be a matter of grave concern to every nation on earth. Such a sad state of affairs