UN General Assembly
1966

159. The imbalance in the terms of trade leads to a continuing drain on the external.resources of the countries exporting primary commodities — a drain so considerable that it already exceeds the volume of foreign aid they receive. This situation is creating a growing lack of confidence in the system which now determines international market prices; moreover — and this is even graver and more dangerous — this phenomenon is leading to the crystallization of two separate worlds. 160. A logical consequence of this division could be the formation of groups of countries which, although politically antagonistic, would align themselves according to their level of economic development, thus dramatically adding to the host of very serious problems now besetting the world. Before we are confronted with this dilemma we must try as far as possible to achieve true and effective economic interdependence at the international level. This should stop being voluntary and become mandatory, so as to overcome the negative effect of the combined influence of power politics and economic orthodoxy.