UN General Assembly
1967

57. A year ago [1414th meeting], my delegation commented forcefully on this scandal of the twentieth century and proposed the holding of an economic Bandung; such a conference will be held at Algiers next month. A world proletariat, comprising some 75 per cent of the population of this planet, and having only 15 per cent of the total world income to live on — 85 per cent of that income being enjoyed by only one quarter of the population — that is sheer madness. The United Nations Development Decade, a project which is now running its course, has failed to live up to the hopes it had aroused. And yet, its goals are modest enough, in all conscience, when compared with that scandalous phenomenon, international economic relations.