UN General Assembly
1982

recover its fundamental role of monitoring monetary policies and rates of exchange; systematic intervention by the Bank for International Settlements in the solution of financial crises; early implementation, within the framework of UNCTAD, of the Common Fund for Commodities, accompanied by renewed efforts aimed at reaching commodity agreements together with effective mean for the stabilization of prices; estab-lishment of an energy affiliate of the World Bank or some other comparable system so as to have avail¬able an instrument appropriate to the size of the energy investments the developing countries will have to make in the course of the coming decade. 158. There must be progress on all these subjects in the various bodies where they are being discussed. It is essential to seize every opportunity for dialogue and meetings in order to restore the proper signifi¬cance to the multilateral institutions existing in the economic and political field and make them fully functional and useful. 159. It is imperative to promote the spirit of interna¬tional co-operation, which alone can enable us together to return to the path to