UN General Assembly
1979

54. This general picture fairly describes the many conferences and symposia that we have attended in this Organization and various institutions within its family, meetings of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, UNCTAD and many others. Those organizations have produced facts, figures and statistics which the most sophisticated computers confirm and refine. I shall spare representatives a long and tedious list of them. They will allow me to eschew certain oratorical devices and not rehearse them once again, as I am sure that they are even more familiar with this list than I. 55. What needs to be denounced is the scandalous evils of a world and an economic and moral order—or, rather, disorder—where the wealth of some dominates and maintains the poverty of others. 56. What needs to be denounced is this devious, dishonest effort to safeguard and maintain, at any cost, this unjust world where the sterile comforts of some are purchased at the expense of the destitution, hunger and poverty of others.