UN General Assembly
1992

My Government feels that the International Conference on Financing Development could provide responses to the difficulties facing the various programmes and plans of action for the development of the countries of the South. For that reason, we sincerely hope that the General Assembly will, during this session, adopt a resolution to convene the Conference, which will be prepared as part of the process of intergovernmental negotiations with the participation of all States. The holding of such a Conference will be an important element in the process of strengthening the role of the United Nations in promoting international economic cooperation. We welcome the Japanese initiative to organize in 1993 an international conference on the development of Africa. The work of that conference should be a good preparatory exercise for the Conference on Financing Development. Benin believes that economic integration is also a response to the marginalization of Africa. It is essential today for our States that the regional economic groupings we have created in order to ensure South-South cooperation should be strengthened.