UN General Assembly
1980

23. The feeling of insecurity across much of the globe today is attributable to the continuing tendency to use force and pressure for the control and exploitation of scarce resources. The distress caused by that phenomenon is writ large on the faces of both the exploited and the exploiter. Where will this lead us? The Holy Koran warns mankind against it thus: "To him who is covetous and bent on riches... to him will the path of distress be made easy". 24. While on the subject of conflict generated by avarice and greed, I should like to present, before this Assembly, how we Muslims perceive some of the critical areas of tension on the world map.