UN General Assembly
1980

61. Conflict, as much as cooperation, has been a part of the history of the human race. In past times the cause of conflict between peoples was almost parochial; language, race and religion have divided men and in their name men have fought and died. Sadly, even today, these symbols which man created continue to divide man. We have also had major confrontations on ideology, and we have spoken much of the antagonism between East and West. 62. The issues which have so clearly emerged today as symptoms of the malaise which afflicts the world—inflation, the imbalance of payments, the monetary system, food, security, the commodity problem, and the like—indicate that future battle lines would be drawn on even a more fundamental basis, perhaps between poor and rich, between South and North. 63. It is surely to forestall this conflict that the debate between the North and the South must be expanded into a dialogue and then quickened into an agreed agenda of action for today, tomorrow and the day after.