UN General Assembly
1982

nevertheless been perturbed by the serious decline in real terms in multilateral assistance in general. As members of the UNDP Governing Council, we have particularly observed the serious lack of resources that will confront UNDP in the Third Indicative Planning Figures Cycle. Many least developed countries have come to rely to a major extent on UNDP, UNICEF and other similar assistance for undertaking projects and programmes crucial to their socioeconomic development. A deterioration in this type of assistance would definitely jeopardize their plans and programmes. We therefore once again call upon the international community, and particularly the developed countries, to reinvigorate their assistance through UNDP and other multilateral agencies. The developing countries are now very aware of the benefits of economic and technical co-operation among themselves. The basis for such co-operation has been clearly laid down in the Caracas Programme of Action which was finalized in 1981, and in the programmes outlined by the non-aligned movement. In our region of South Asia, seven countries —Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and my own, Bhutan—are in the process