UN General Assembly
1967

68. With regard to the first point, it is common knowledge that it is the adverse terms of their international trade that has seriously hampered the progress of our countries. There is still a tremendous and lamentable lack of understanding oil the part of the developed countries of the terms on which their trade relations with the developing countries are carried out, and unfortunately this spirit does not seem to have changed. The whole economic orientation of international trade and industrial production is designed to make things more difficult for the countries which live, precariously from the proceeds of their basic products, the prices of which decrease from day to day on the international market while the prices of manufactured products increase.