UN General Assembly
1971

143. The second important meeting for 1972 is the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm in June, 1972. The need for co-ordinated international action to deal effectively with the problems created by rapid population growth, by urbanization, by industrialization and by the heedless use of natural resources, is now universally recognized. We note with satisfaction the valuable work of the Preparatory Committee and of the Secretariat in this respect. 144. The problems of the deteriorating environment are going to affect all of us, whether we live in a developed or a developing country. But it is in the developing countries where the difficulties of coping with the problem are greatest. We welcome the fact that the General Assembly has, from the very beginning, taken into account the special needs of the developing countries, and we are confident that this recognition will be reaffirmed at the Conference so that the problems of the environment can be effectively resolved on a world-wide scale.