UN General Assembly
1968

natural resources and its raw material potential is practically unlimited. Its population has a high working and production capacity. It is without doubt one part of the world which should have a bright future, but in order to bring that future nearer there must be continuous and increasing industrialization. My own country is particularly anxious to see industries of regional interest established on its territory and we hope to succeed in this undertaking by our own efforts and with the fraternal co-operation of the other countries in the hemisphere. 180. In the increasingly interdependent world of today, the problems of one country or reg:on must directly or indirectly, but inevitably, affect other countries and other regions. In the course of this statement I have referred, in a spirit of willingness to co-operate in the search for possible solutions, to some of the more serious problems which the present General Assembly will have to consider.