UN General Assembly
1965

88. Yet it seems that what has taken place so far is quite inadequate. We are now half-way through the hopefully proclaimed United Nations Development Decade without substantial progress having been accomplished. It would seem that international collective responsibility is still in its infancy, and that what we require is a revolution in our thinking about these problems. 89. The most burning issue in the world economic picture, as far as the developing countries see it, may well be that which relates to the marketing of primary products. It was most distressing to read in the Secretary-General's introduction to his annual report that: "... a disturbing shadow has been cast, in the form of a worsening of the relative economic position of the developing countries. ...the terms of trade are moving against the developing countries." [A/600l/Add.1, section IV.]