UN General Assembly
1967

31. I should now like to deal briefly with the second subject, which we have called "the second pillar of peace": co-operation. The fact is that peace is not merely the absence of war. There are other situations which endanger peace, because of the injustice and misrule they reveal. If we wish to know what these situations are, we have but to open the Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization [A/6701, p. 95]. There, following an analysis of world economic trends in 1966 and the first months of 1967, we read that the over-all economic growth rate in the developing countries had already weakened slightly from 1964 to 1965; it dropped again from 1965 to 1966. For these countries as a whole — and that may be one of the most discouraging facts cited — total agricultural production, according to the report, diminished by more than 1 per cent in 1966. At the same time, of course, the total number of mouths to feed in those same developing countries rose by about 3.5 per cent annually, so that the combined effect of these two factors is that there is less food available per person from year to year.