UN General Assembly
1968

82. We have noted that the Second United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, held at New Delhi in 1968, achieved only very partial results which, had they been attained fully, would have paved the way for definite progress towards multilaterally recognized and supported objectives. Development has taken on a new character in recent years because it has ceased to be a purely national problem and has become a definite objective of the international community. All peoples of the world are playing their part in the process, and all States are accepting their share of the responsibility. Interpreted generously, the statistics may show some achievements; but over and beyond those achievements the most important accomplishment of the past few years has been the acceptance of development as a problem for which all members of the international community bear a collective responsibility.