UN General Assembly
1969

and Development Board was recently unable to make the essential contribution which UNCTAD is expected to make. 249. We are fully aware that international co-operation will not come from pathetic appeals to the virtues of heart and mind, nor from a sudden desire to respect the principles of the Charter, but only from a long process in which the third world countries free themselves from foreign domination by their national and regional efforts and reach a position from which they can negotiate. 250. Thus we shall play our due part in hastening the advent of an era of genuine international co-operation; at the same time we shall have created in and around our countries the basis of a durable peace for the greatest good of our peoples and of mankind. Those are the motives of the regional and international policy of Algeria. 251. The agreements and treaties of friendship, of good-neighbourly relations and co-operation which have during this year set the seal on our links with our brothers in the Maghreb are further tokens of my country’s adherence to