UN General Assembly
1969

may I pay a heartfelt tribute to the memory of Mr. Emilio Arenales, a diplomat of rare quality, a brilliant orator with a diversity of talents, a man of uncommon courtesy, one of the most outstanding men of our Latin America, who presided with tact and authority over the work of the preceding session of the United Nations General Assembly and whom the merciless reaper took from his country and from us all in the fullness of his genius. 141. And to you, Madam President, I renew my wishes for a successful and fruitful leadership. 142. We are almost at the end of the First United Nations Development Decade; the Preparatory Committee for the Second Development Decade has already drawn up the programme of work and calendar of meetings, in conformity with General Assembly resolution 2411 (XXIII), concerned essentially with defining the main elements of the international development strategy and with establishing an order of priority for the questions to be considered: the rate of growth, financial and economic assistance to developing countries, the world demographic