UN General Assembly
1971

33. The recent upheavals in the international monetary system will have been beneficial to us to the extent that they have enabled us to become aware of our individual limits as small *veak countries, powerless in the face of the great Powers, and to try and put our heads together to think up solutions to our common problems, if, order to improve the lot of our populations. 34. Thus OCAMM, whose activity is daily devoted to this purpose, deserves the support and assistance of the United Nations, 35. I would have been remiss in my duty had I not said something about a phenomenon which affects two thirds of humanity: underdevelopment, It is a phenomenon which, according to His Holiness, Pope Paul VI* is closely linked with peace, and may even indeed be an essential element of peace. Underdevelopment has, for more than a quarter of a century now, been the subject of discussion in our august Assembly- Never has an illness been so thoroughly diagnosed by its doctor. But what has been the result of tins examination?