UN General Assembly
1969

only have ten years. 15. It is thus with an apprehensive understanding of what has been often described as the “mad momentum” of the ever escalating arms race that my delegation enthusiastically welcomes the Secretary-General’s proposal that the seventies should also be declared a Disarmament Decade. We also agree with him that, similar to the exercise presently under way to establish goals and specific objectives for common action with respect to economic and social development in the decade of the seventies, specific objectives and timetables should be established in the field of disarmament. 16. Science and technology are also exerting a decisive influence on economic and social development. The growing scientific and technological gap between the developed and the developing countries is the root cause of the widening disparity in their development. The present unequal sharing of the benefits of international trade between them, a factor which the developing countries consider one of the most restrictive to their economic development, can, in large measure, be explained by the uneven distribution of the benefits of modern science and