UN General Assembly
1982

have put all their wealth and resources at the disposal of the avarice and ambitions of the super-Powers. What is more important is that, apart from material and economic poverty, our world today is suffering from cultural poverty, which is far more regrettable than the other difficulties and problems. Lofty human values have been deformed by the greed and avarice of the world-devourers and have fallen victim to false and hollow materialistic criteria. How regrettable it is when we, from our historical experience, come to see that values like freedom, social justice and democracy are being misused, that crimes are being committed in the name of liberty and human rights, that concepts like social liberty and justice have become means of suppression, oppression and tyranny, and that nothing is said about spirituality and religion., which can and should provide a sole basis of social relations and pave the way for the growth of human society. In fact, apart from all racial, national, linguistic and geographical differences, human beings share a common nature which, if developed,