UN General Assembly
1962

233. In contrast to this, closed politico-economic groups, in which the leading role belongs to the West German monopolists, are being set up in Western Europe as the economic basis of military pacts. Such "integration" leads to greater domination over the workers international capitalist monopolies, to the dictating of orders by the stronger to the weaker partners to the conversion of the economically underdeveloped members of such groups into mere subsidiaries for the supply of raw materials, and to the intensification of discrimination against other countries remaining outside the "common market". 234. It is time for the United Nations to make a detailed study of the harmful effects of such " Integration", and to promote the removal of every obstacle to the all-round development of world trade and to extensive international economic collaboration. The time has come to convene an international conference on trade, as proposed by the Soviet Union [A/5219].