UN General Assembly
1975

30. Our central position on the spine of Africa, where we have today the good fortune to be surrounded only by brothers and friends, has convinced us that safeguard measures will never be watertight and that the new economic order will be illusory unless they are both based on total co-operation and understanding among neighbors, which would form nuclei around which and on the basis of which bigger groupings would be constructed. 31. That is the view of my Government, expressed in these terms by Lieutenant-General Micombero, President of the Republic of Burundi: "My country is convinced that the establishment of this new international economic order will be brought about all the more rapidly if the victims of the injustices of the present order become more aware of the need for it and do everything in their power to accelerate its establishment. We, for our part, include among these means the establishment,