UN General Assembly
1981

133. Finally, it is worth pointing out that by the year 2000 foreign assistance for agriculture, according to the experts, should reach $10 billion. In contrast, the program for the continuance of world military expenses currently amount!; to $450 billion per year. 134. I should like to state the five principles which guide the policy of Venezuela in the United Nations as a Latin American country. 135. First, the problems of Latin America should be solved by Latin Americans, without foreign interference, and without direct or indirect hemispheric or extra-hemispheric intervention. 136. Second, Latin America's position vis-à-vis the world's great and serious problems should be autonomous, and neither related to nor integrated with the interests of bloc politics. 137. Third, Latin America should seek agreements with Africa and Asia in the framework of South-South cooperation. 138. Fourth, Latin America should seek increasing agreements with Africa and Asia, both in adopting a common approach to problems in North-South relations and in assuming positions with respect to the many aspects of the East-West confrontation.