UN General Assembly
1982

co-operation on the part of the industrialized countries. The Vienna Programme of Action on Science and Technology for Development, adopted in August 1979,s has so far not even begun to be implemented and no agreement has been reached on its financing. The same applies to an international code of conduct for the transfer of technology negotiated within the framework of UNCTAD. I should like to stress the role and the importance which the third world countries attribute to this question of the transfer of technology as a catalyst for development, whether it be within the framework of the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade in the more general framework of the establishment of a new international economic order. It is appropriate here to make an urgent appeal to all Member States to embrace a new ethic of international solidarity, without which no progress is possible. At a time of interdependence, we believe it essential that international development aid, technical and financial assistance and all other forms of international co-operation be derived from this