UN General Assembly
1990

economies to the main international financial institutions and the end of the cold war are opening up a new chapter in the future of international co-operation, making it possible to envision the configuration of one world, increasingly integrated and co-operative. In this context, we look toward an international trading system, free of distortions and barriers, one that may allow all members of the international community to become part of the global economy, according to their potential and possibilities. In this connection, the practice of subsidising the production and export of agricultural products - which is seriously affecting the efficient producer countries - must be avoided. My country is taking part in the ongoing negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), in the belief that on them depends to a great extent the multilateral solution to the expanding current trade conflicts and the future of international economic co-operation. In the economic field also we are facing a conflict between the law of the stronger, with a return to the trade