UN General Assembly
1983

84. Therefore the Haitian Government has begun to wonder—following President Belisario Betancur's statement in a remarkable address that Central America needed $5 billion in order to recover its former level of expansion—how many billions the Caribbean would need to bring about a rate of growth that would make it possible to meet the essential needs of its peoples. It is for us, together with the major Powers of this continent to give a serious and credible answer to this question, bearing constantly in mind the fact that economic development and social progress constitute, in the final analysis, the best guarantees of political stability and regional security. 85. Thirdly, the clear inability of the international system in its present form to provide the necessary components of a solution for the developing countries should make the third world seek in South-South co-operation ways and means of bringing about its economic emancipation.