UN General Assembly
2006

Non-Aligned Movement in Havana heard this message very clearly emanating from all the countries and organizations that spoke. Those who are capable of listening should take note of what that great son of India and South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi, said on this matter: “The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Cooperation which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional cooperation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.” 13 06-52731 Precisely because of the absence of a global partnership for development, the Doha Development Round has almost collapsed. Indeed, because the rich implicitly invoked the slogan of an over-confident European political party of the 1960s, and directed this uncaring declaration to the poor of today — “I’m alright, Jack!” — we have not implemented the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development, thus making it difficult for the majority of the developing countries, especially those in Africa, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and we have reduced the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to an insignificant, and perhaps forgotten, piece of paper.