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"Mr President, there is an essential starting point in this debate which some among us at times forget or attempt to hide. For decades, centuries, relations between the so-called industrialised countries and what are termed developing countries have been founded upon unequal trade and upon the dependency and underdevelopment of the latter, which are looked on as sources of supply for raw materials and cheap labour.
Centre-periphery relations, peculiar to the capitalist system currently in force at a global scale, are intrinsically unjust and unequal. These relations are upheld by the policies imposed by institutions such as the World Trade Organisation or the International Monetary Fund, with their programmes of structural adjustment, and by means of instruments such as the suffocating external debt and its servicing. It is all this that should be questioned and profoundly changed, and because of all this the policy of development aid should not be looked upon as an act of charity by the richest towards the poorest, but instead as a necessity dictated by the criteria of fundamental justice. The report, which contains positive aspects, but which is not free from contradiction, does not, unfortunately, address these and other essential questions."@en1
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