UN General Assembly
1972

182. As far as the Government of Sierra Leone is concerned, the results of the third session of UNCTAD were most disappointing. Many resolutions adopted in Santiago were not commensurate with the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade [resolution 2626 (XXV)] or with resolutions adopted at earlier sessions of UNCTAD or of the United Nations. More than half of the resolutions adopted at the third session were not supported by the Governments of developed countries, which therefore could not be expected to implement them. The impression left was that the Governments of the developed countries wanted to replace the multinational framework of negotiations by bilateral relations with developing countries- bilateral relations which the world still condemns in the existing system of international trade and developmental aid.