UN General Assembly
2013

whose human resources they employ to produce their goods and services. They must look at the peoples in the countries that need the industries of the developed countries to process their mineral exports and at the peoples in the countries where they want to market their products. For many of those people, the situation is intolerable. That is why we are pleased to note that the documents that have already been written and which are intended to serve as a platform for our debates and decisions have an optimistic tone. They give us, for example, the assurance that if we act now, the problems we face will not become insoluble. Universal sustainable development, which addresses the challenges that have been so clearly identified, will translate into social justice in the world. It will also translate into peace, international peace, the achievement of which is a strategic goal of the Organization. To speak of eradicating extreme poverty, measured in terms of living on an income of less than $1.25 a day, sounds like an enormous goal, especially because