UN General Assembly
1974

280. The organs of the United Nations were preoccupied last year with the appraisal of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, The studies.and deliberations conducted in this respect clearly revealed that the advanced countries did not fulfill their commitments but were rather reluctant to take the necessary measures for providing aid to the developing countries and improving the terms of trade. So long as the Strategy is not applied one must come to the conclusion that the main obstacle is the lack of political will on the part of the developed countries. Kuwait is a developing country, and yet it has been devoting a large percentage of its gross national product during the past years to help less fortunate developing countries support their efforts to achieve self-sustained growth and extricate themselves from poverty and privation.