UN General Assembly
2012

poor countries, where a large part of the population lives on less than $1 per day. Rates of net financial transfers to developing countries are falling, and revenue from tourism is falling acutely. Infant mortality is rising. The heavy debt burden seriously slows the economies of developing countries, especially least developed, and directly affects the already modest financial resources of the countries, thereby hampering their ability to meet their basic needs in terms of infrastructure and public services. Against this worrying backdrop, we call on rich countries and donors to honour their commitment to contribute to the economies of developing countries, giving priority to least developed, so that they can have acceptable access to public services, thus ensuring peaceful civil order, security, stability and social cohesion in those countries, and thereby safeguard peace around the world. At the initiative, and with the support, of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, our Government has endeavoured to provide citizens decent living conditions and to help them in times of crises. In this connection, an emergency intervention plan, known as