UN General Assembly
1969

awaits them for enhancing the effectiveness and impact of the United Nations agencies of international development. There are still strong inhibitions against the dismantling of imperial patterns of trade. 137. There has been no perceptible advance from the position of allotting to the developing countries the status of recipients of aid and technical assistance. There has been little effort to accept the concept that the developing nations should not suffer from unfavourable terms of trade and should be assisted to stand on their own feet economically, paying their own way in an equitable international economic order. 138. On a practical level, we still await the fulfilment of the long-standing promise that the developed countries as a whole will pledge one per cent of their gross national product for development assistance to the poorer countries; the decisions mutually agreed to at the second session of UNCTAD in New Delhi over eighteen months ago, regarding non-discriminatory and non-reciprocal preferences in favour of developing countries, have yet to be implemented. 139. Those are the inadequacies for which we must