UN General Assembly
1981

55. In this connection, the Rwandese Republic will continue to give active support to all initiatives which are designed to promote economic cooperation among the developing countries, because this is the only hope of salvation in the face of continual obstruction by the wealthy countries, which hitherto have paid very little attention to the claims of the countries of the third world regarding the establishment of a more just and equitable new international economic order. 56. It is for this reason that Rwanda has very close links of cooperation with neighboring and fraternal countries in both regional and subregional organizations. 57. Similarly, Rwanda considers the Lagos Plan of Action to be the vital and unanimous expression of the political will of African countries to undertake, step by step, concerted action to ensure endogenous, self-sustaining development leading between now and the year 2000 to the creation of an African common market, which would be the prelude to an integrated African economic community.