UN General Assembly
1969

discussing for so many years. I have in mind first of all the drafting of a declaration on the principles governing friendly relations between States, the formulation of an international development strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, and the preparation of a programme of action for the abolition of colonialism. This would be a way of giving our twenty-fifth anniversary its proper significance. In addition to the problem of disarmament, which remains as important and urgent as it is complex, the problems I have just mentioned could be the targets for our concerted action during the anniversary period. The Yugoslav Government is ready to take a very active part in those efforts. 133. The crucial questions of our time—peace or war, enslavement or independence, backwardness or development —are problems not only of governments and States but of all mankind. 134. May I remind you that 20 years ago, in the first lines of the Charter of this Organization—the most famed of all world organizations-we undertook “to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”, and