UN General Assembly
1987

The responsibility of governing today includes the need to advance development in an internationally comparative context. In policies and actions, it calls for harmonizing the objectives of the more developed communities with the concrete realities and effective potential of the nation being governed. The close interrelationship that now characterizes the life of nations requires more urgently than ever that we become able to regulate our shared existence upon this planet, giving due consideration and respect to our own geographical, political, economic, social, technical, historical and cultural differences. It also requires that we foster a spirit of true unity that will facilitate harmonious progress where equity will prevail over our present and future relations. This Organization, which brings us together, is designed to be the instrument for that profound goal. Its creation and existence respond to one of the most constructive aspirations of nations, and its principles to the common ethical values that should prevail in relations between men and peoples.