UN General Assembly
1962

179. Mr. Spaak, the Foreign Minister of Belgium, in his address to the Assembly [1138th meeting], has clarified the purposes and principles of the European Economic Community. The question before the less developed countries, however, is whether major transformations in the pattern of world trade, which as yet we cannot visualize, are to be set in motion exclusively by the European Common Market or whether the entire world community, acting under the aegis of the United Nations, should also influence that process.