UN General Assembly
2001

must do all we can to avoid giving such excuses and pretexts to individuals and groups who in fact have nothing but criminal motives. Cameroon has maintained and continues to maintain that the United Nations must, more than ever before, continue to affirm the necessary links of solidarity within the international community and the need for balance in international relations. Support and development assistance for the poorest regions of the world are essentials recalled not only in the resolutions of the Millennium Summit, but also at the most recent Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held this year in Brussels. The recovery efforts of the countries of the South — inter alia, the New African Initiative on economic matters — 33 must be accompanied and supported by the most prosperous States. During the annual session of the Economic and Social Council last summer in Geneva, over which Cameroon had the honour of presiding, these principles and requirements were broadly recalled and, thank goodness, endorsed. In spite of the commitments undertaken at one