Ms. Pulido Santana ( Venezuela ) ( spoke in Spanish ) : The joint consideration of these two items enables us to evaluate from a global perspective the results of the international community 's assistance to Africa so that the continent can achieve sustainable socio-economic growth and development and alleviate the impact that internal and international conflicts have had on countries in trying to achieve those goals . The priority goals of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s ( UN-NADAF ) were to promote the comprehensive transformation , diversification and accelerated growth of African economies in order to strengthen them and to integrate them into the world economy , as well as to promote human development and to increase productive employment .