UN General Assembly
1968

91. Having exerted great efforts at the internal level, and having demonstrated our peoples’ firm determination to achieve regional economic integration, we are now turning to the external world with which we must co-operate under the rules of economic interdependence. 92. The first United Nations Development Decade is drawing to a close, and we are preparing to set the goals for the second Decade. It is only natural that we should begin by drawing up the balance sheet, however brief, of the first Decade.