UN General Assembly
1971

169. I cannot fail now to refer to a question of the greatest current interest: namely, the monetary crisis. 170. The impact of the measures recently taken urgently brings out the need for international solidarity and for new forms of agreement. But such agreements must be entered into not exclusively from the standpoint of the interests of the great Powers, but only on the basis of broad co-operation taking into account the interests of all countries, since it does not seem fair that precisely the developing coun- tries-which have been wholly unconnected with the birth of the crisis should be the ones to suffer the most from its consequences. 171. The reform of the international monetary system cannot bs put through behind their backs, nor should their specific problems be overlooked.