UN General Assembly
1964

98. The many items on the agenda concern us deeply, but I should like to stress the broad principles underlying some of them in this general statement of outlook. My delegation’s remarks on the individual issues will be put forward by its representatives on the Committees. The most pressing problem, as far as my Government sees things, is that of poverty. We, the Government and all thinking people in the Sudan, followed with keen interest the deliberations of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. To tell you the truth, we thought it was the most vital gathering of men in this latter part of the twentieth century. But we expected much more.