UN General Assembly
1968

80. I should like, at this point, to refer to the growing economic gap between the developing and the developed nations and to the disconcerting feeling that this means, in fact, that the poor nations, which can ill afford to, have become poorer. The Secretary-General has referred to this widening gap between the economic development of nations in his report to the General Assembly, and my delegation considers that this economic gap between nations should be as much a matter for concern of the developed as of the developing nations. International machinery intended to help to remove this danger to the ability of the world community to solve economic problems together will have little effect unless a great deal more of international goodwill, at the practical level, is in evidence than there seems to be at the moment.