UN General Assembly
1975

96. Another combat, which has also been a combat for liberation, has been the efforts of the countries of the third world to establish a more just and equitable new economic order. 97. That is a great victory for the third world, but it is no less a victory for the developed countries. It justifies optimism regarding the future because the trail has only just now been blazed towards genuine detente, which we view as an indivisible whole. However, the industrialized countries must not rest content with making promises, they must do their utmost to see to it that those promises are carried out. The countries of the third world must become better organized and they must stand together increasingly, for they are primarily responsible for the well being of their people. I am pleased to announce here that Niger is prepared to work for genuine co-operation with all countries of the world, and in particular with the countries of the third world, convinced, as we are, that as long as the peoples of the world have diverging aspirations, co-operation will inevitably remain an area in which the strong endeavor to bring pressure to bear on the weak. Countries of the third world must then unite even in poverty, for as we have seen unity and poverty can also be a force to which the world at large must pay heed if it is to survive.