UN General Assembly
1993

developing countries. In this context, we propose a restructuring of the mechanism of international management for economic development and cooperation. My Government shares the opinion that a successful outcome to the forthcoming world conferences on economic and social development and on population is of great importance to the international community so that there may be, at the highest level, an open and frank dialogue with a view to finding the most equitable solutions to the most diverse and burning issues concerning mankind: poverty, hunger and malnutrition - in a word, "underdevelopment" - that grip a great part of our planet. I should like to refer also to the importance that my Government attaches to environmental issues and the attention that it pays to implementation of the recommendations and decisions of the Rio Conference of 1992. In this context, the Government of Angola has established the post of Secretary of State for the Environment, whose purpose is to apply the recommendations and decisions of the Rio Conference. In addition, an inter-ministerial commission, with an essentially