UN General Assembly
1992

closely aligned economic and political entities. This trend towards the formation of larger economic blocs will inevitably transform the world economically and politically. This poses a challenge for which we must be duly prepared in order to avoid deepening still further the gap that separates rich countries from poor countries. It is a challenge with respect to which all of us, rich countries and poor, large countries and small, must make a commensurate collective effort to maintain effective, multifarious international cooperation directed always towards the development of the parties involved, based always upon the true needs of the development process. However, certain political situations are now viewed as faits accomplis. or as conditions to be perpetuated. These must be the object of immediate and radical revision, with a view to harmonizing positions and interests, and weakening wide barriers that impede true cooperation between countries and nations separated by vast differences in their levels of economic, social, scientific, technical, cultural and educational development. In our view, this revision should consist, inter alia, of the following