UN General Assembly
1968

74. The agenda for this session includes a number of items which are not of equal importance to all countries. This is why my delegation will dwell on some of them at greater length. This does not imply a lack of interest in the other problems which are to be discussed here. It simply means that I wish to submit for the consideration of the Assembly the views of Bolivia on the questions which are of most interest to the nation that I have the honour to represent. 75. The first United Nations Development Decade is drawing to a close in an atmosphere of frustration. The goal of eradicating poverty, hunger and ignorance and closing the gap separating the peoples of the world has remained merely an expression of good intentions, unaccompanied by the necessary determination to take prompt and effective action to bring about a radical transformation of the present inequitable economic and commercial structures.