UN General Assembly
1978

31. While there is a pressing need for structural changes in the global economic system, there is also a need for the developing countries to break some vicious circles among and within their economies. The Turkish Prime Minister, Mr. Bulent Ecevit, in his opening address at the Istanbul seminar on the New International Economic Order suggested that, first, developing countries should increase and render more effective their economic co-operation in adapting and developing technology. Secondly, with the strength they would obtain through solidarity and cooperation, they should try to increase their' collective effectiveness in the international trade of commodities and industrial goods, as well as their influence in international financial organizations and institutions. And thirdly, they should subscribe to a new development concept which should be different from that prevailing in some developed countries, a concept which would consist in the aspiration to a healthy social structure, and to healthy values that emphasize quality rather than quantity.