UN General Assembly
1976

143. As a small country, Sierra Leone has contributed and continues to contribute to the translation of the new international economic order into reality by strengthening regional, subregional and interregional co-operation with countries whose present socio-economic structures are similar to its own. We are convinced that these efforts would, in the final analysis, make the new order a turning-point in the history of international relations and transform the entire economic structure of the world. For us, the new economic order holds the prospect of major progress towards the realization of the economic and social aspirations of the vast dispossessed majority of mankind. Until recently, these millions could not hope for anything but the perpetuation of the traditional relations of dependency Which locked them firmly in the selfish strangle hold of the industrial nations and their transnational corporations.