UN General Assembly
1986

This plan, whose main goal is the restoration of the base of our economy that had become distorted by years of natural disasters and mismanagement, will give rise to sufficiently bold action to give a new dynamic imprint to the rhythm of growth of that economy. Strengthened by the recommendations* and conclusion? the special session of the United Nations on the critical economic situation in Africa, Burkina Faso intends to succeed, through this plan, in setting up an independent and self-sufficient national economy in which agriculture and livestock, defined as "the driving force of our development", will be the backbone. The efforts that we have just described are to be placed within the more general framework of the struggle of people for a world of dignity and peace. In this regard, the United Nations still has a role to play because mankind is a whole and all of us will survive or perish together.