UN General Assembly
1974

123. The work of resolving the crisis could not be confined to finding partial solutions, which, by not calling into question fundamentally the inequalities and disparities inherent in this system, would have only allowed a postponement of the consequences and would have left the situation to get even worse. Courage and clear sightedness demanded that we get to the bottom of things and discover that the roots of the crisis lay in the economic order itself, and that it was by working on the economic order itself that one could really expect to obtain positive results. 124. This is, in fact, what happened, not without difficulties in the attempt to establish an open and sincere dialog between the developed and the underdeveloped countries, and also not without reservations on the part of the industrialized countries. How-ever that may be, and whatever may be said of this result, it could reasonably be considered as a point of departure along a path which had already been traced, along which there was some ground for hoping that we could make even more progress.