UN General Assembly
1957

6. For this reason, my country strongly supported the establishment of the Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development. We consider it most encouraging that the United Nations should have drafted the legal framework of this instrument of economic co-operation. However, until such an instrument becomes operative, we must take care to maintain normal international trade, especially between the countries which produce raw materials and the industrialized countries which consume these materials. 7. Conditions in the past caused certain countries to develop a mono-productive type of economy; in the case of Bolivia, the economy is based on minerals. Trade in these primary materials — such as the lead and zinc referred to by the Foreign Minister of Peru in his statement [683rd meeting] is today threatened by tariff barriers. I refer to measures tending to establish discrimination by reason of the origin of such primary materials.