UN General Assembly
1992

illusion to think that any country, however rich or great, can survive isolated, surrounded by an archipelago of poverty. If we want peace and social stability we must address the issues of growth and sustainable development in their human and social dimensions. Indebtedness, mainly due to the collapse of commodity prices and the subsequent transfer of resources from poor to rich countries, continues to hurt the developing world. Barriers to trade raise formidable obstacles to the efforts of developing countries to reach the markets of the highly industrialized North and limit their possibilities for growth while having an adverse effect on the export prices of their products. That is why we are anxious about the delay in concluding the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and express the hope that the target for completing the negotiations - that is, the end of 1992 will be achieved this time. Developing nations' access to technology is still very restricted and this adds to the already existing inequalities that hamper growth on a global level.