UN General Assembly
1979

105. Pakistan hopes that the development strategy for the next decade will achieve the aims of the New International Economic Order. Such new concepts as a "basic needs strategy", differentiation, graduation and "organized trade" should not divert the international community from this central goal. The developing countries accept the need for a more self-reliant pattern of development with the aim of expanding domestic markets through improved distribution in order to ameliorate mass poverty and provide for the essential needs of their peoples. But this does not absolve the developed countries of their responsibility to make their full contribution to international development cooperation, nor does it render the need to restructure international economic relations any less urgent and imperative.