UN General Assembly
1988

In the past four decades most members of the international community have made a joint effort to establish a new international economic order that would narrow the gap between the developed and the developing States. The results, however, have been discouraging. We still have an economic system in which a handful of powerful beneficiaries are surrounded by the two thirds of the population of the world that live in poverty. That system is without any ethical basis it disavows man’s solidarity with his fellow men and prevents all countries and all individuals from exacting their right to development, to the progress brought about by science and technology, to culture and well-being.