UN General Assembly
1963

115. A new activity of great importance is within the reach of this Organization: the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to be held before long. It will be to the interest of peace and fruitful cooperation, if, by co-ordinating the existing functions and creating new ones, the Conference creates a permanent body to encourage the free development of trade relations and to foster measures against discriminatory systems. In this new political atmosphere there are increasingly valid reasons to hope that the Conference will, in the spirit of peaceful coexistence, work out solutions for closer economic co-operation between countries having different social and economic systems and structures.