UN General Assembly
1969

likely to be as fully achieved as had been envisaged. The disappointment concerning the First Development Decade has been ascribed mainly to the lack of an international strategy, and an attempt has been made to remedy this lack for the Second Development Decade. 45. The delegation of Burma is, however, of the view that, the availability or lack of such a development strategy notwithstanding, the development goals of the international community cannot be achieved without the requisite political will on the part of both developed and developing countries. The delegation of Burma holds firmly to the view that the most important part of the strategy that may be formulated should be the creation of a two-way political will as between developing and developed countries. I should like to present the thought that the most effective way of helping to create the requisite political will among the developed countries would be to demonstrate beyond any doubt the sincerity and intensity of the desire of the developing countries to place primary reliance on their own