UN General Assembly
1980

107. Allow me also to stress that the dichotomy to which the North-South dialogue is reduced—that of the developed countries versus developing countries—is not helpful to the resolution of the difficulties faced by the international com-munity and does not even correspond to the reality which confronts us. Just as there sometimes are substantial differences in the wealth and levels of economic and technological development of developed countries, not to mention the diversity of their economic and social systems, so there are also considerable distances separating the developing countries.