UN General Assembly
1972

67. Such a Community has the special duty to take the greatest account of the needs of all the countries of the third world and most especially of those who have been our partners from the very first. 68. The third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development fUNCTAD], held in the spring in Santiago, Chile, did not, unfortunately, live up to expectations. But is it not true that public opinion sometimes tends to expect too much from great conferences of this kind? After all, the achievement of tangible results in a field so complex and controversial requires persevering and continuous co-operation based upon a common political will. Moreover, I feel that what harmed that session of UNCTAD was that an attempt was made to discuss and resolve every tiling simultaneously.