UN General Assembly
1979

81. The Republic of Cape Verde ascribes great importance to the relationship between disarmament and development, and hopes that the various bodies of our Organization will be able to propose practical ways and means of devoting a large part of the resources released from the arms race to the satisfaction of the fundamental social and economic needs of the developing countries and, in particular, of the least developed among them. 82. The establishment of a lasting policy of international security should make it possible for countries to devote their efforts to development and to enjoy that well-being that is the unanimous desire of the international community, a desire that should be put into effect, not so much in terms of resolutions, conventions and declarations, as in tangible facts, in international relations and in concrete actions taken within the framework of disarmament. 83. Our country is now occupied with many different tasks: the struggle for national reconstruction, the struggle against drought, the struggle against the remaining after-effects of colonialism; and a struggle to develop our greatest resource, the Cape Verde citizen.