UN General Assembly
1986

Moreover, the mobilization of large material, human and financial resources for an increase in nuclear weaponry cannot be justified in any way when we know that the overwhelming majority of mankind suffers from hunger, poverty and want. This diversion of resources is pure selfishness. That explains the determination of the nuclear Powers to keep the price of the raw materials from the developing countries at the lowest possible level, for the sole purpose of building up stockpiles of them. These same Powers are opposed to the launching of global negotiations for the establishment of a new international economic order with a view to restructuring international economic relations. In other words, part of the economic difficulties facing the developing countries that are commodity producers are caused by the nuclear-arms race. Thus, the relations between North and South, rather than improving, are becoming worse. We see an increasing deterioration in the terms of trade, the excessive indebtedness of the third world and an even greater imbalance between industrialized countries and developing countries.