UN General Assembly
1985

No one in this forum is unaware of U.e inequalities which exist in small underdeveloped countries or the difficulties they face in trying to solve the principal problems affecting and impeding their development. An essential factor in this connection id the concept of the international dimension of development, in which a new international economic order must cease to be a dream and become a reality, in order to correct the unequal relations between States, which have been at the root of the great inequalities and some of the main tensions from which the international community suffers. Therefore^ we strive not only for a restructuring of the terms of trade and the elimination of protectionist barriers in industrialized countries, but also for the free flow of information, the transfer of science and technology, a change in forms of co-operation so as to bring them into line with the requirements of development and thus overcome such problems as that of the foreign debt, which limit and prevent progress in our countries and become elements of pressure and serious social and political instability.