UN General Assembly
1986

Inequalities in the flow of capital and technical know-how continue to make a satisfactory level of progress and development a privilege reserved for a handful of peoples. The misfortune of the underprivileged, swept by a tide of justified but unsatisfied aspirations, threatens the future of peace and freedom in all nations. The sooner the Governments of the countries where wealth and power have been concentrated understand and accept this reality, the sooner mankind will find itself on the road to universal respect for the ideals of peace and freedom. In order to create the necessary conditions for the sustained growth of the world economy, we must analyze in depth and conscientiously reorder the economic relations among States so that there is genuine equity in trade and in the study of the factors which determine the distribution of capital investment.