UN General Assembly
1993

designing a more open and transparent trading system. The system will have to protect and support the trading relationships of the third world countries with the industrialized countries and, moreover, make it possible for countries with weak economies to come away from the sidelines and be fully integrated into the world economy. My Government therefore wishes trade liberalization to lead to the establishment of principles of fair play that would impel the countries of the North to buy the South’s products at remunerative prices. Towards this end, it is our hope that the multilateral negotiations of the Uruguay Round will take into account the concerns of the third world. The debt problem remains a source of serious concern for the African States, which are already being sorely tried by the effects of the world economic crisis. Africa, which Forty-eighth session - 4 October l993 29 is allocating more than half its income to servicing its debt, as required by the structural adjustment programmes, has been struggling for more than a decade now under an