UN General Assembly
1982

154. .We are extremely concerned-how could we not be?-when we note that some Powers employ force with disconcerting ease as a means of settling disputes. Flouting international rules and conventions, those colonialist, imperialist, expansionist, racist Powers have systematized their irregular, illegal, immoral, amoral practices. Armed aggression, military intervention, the occupation of the territories of other States, the use of mercenaries and open interference in the internal affairs of other independent States have become their favourite means of imposing their domination and of achieving the triumph of their selfish and hegemonistic interests, to the detriment of the rights of other peoples. 155. With the exception of the problems connected with general and complete disarmament and periodic crises, the majority of the world's political problems are centred in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The agenda of the present session of the General Assembly, like the agendas of preceding sessions, merely reflects this situation. Hence, the delegation of the People's Republic of Benin believes that the poor countries, which an unjust international economic system