UN General Assembly
1975

154. We have done a fair job in the past few weeks. The resolution adopted by the General Assembly on the report of theAd Hoc Committee of the Seventh Special Session [resolution 3362 (S-VIJ)] can make history. To help it to do so we shall have to do an equally fair job at this thirtieth session. It was a rocky road to the resolution, yet we traversed it. The political framework needed for implementing it is the challenge before us now. To meet it, we have to keep the spirit of the seventh special session that helped rich and poor see the oneness of the world. An era of international detente is the answer to the challenge. This does not necessarily mean replacing the detente between the United States and the USSR but perhaps helping it to serve better the purposes of the much more necessary approaching universal detente. What we have achieved during the seventh special session removes a great many difficulties in international economic relations. It does not do the whole job, nor can it do anything without a strong political will to prop it up. There will have to be skillful pipers to turn to living reality the thoughts contained in the resolution. Without the political will, the old order will linger on, although its somewhat elusive end is in sight.