The Cmea Countries and the New International Economic Order

It is six years since the 6th Special Session of the UN General Assembly adopted the ‘Declaration on the Establishment of the New International Economic Order’ and the ‘Plan of Action’. At the 29th session of the General Assembly the developing countries, supported by the socialist states, secured the adoption of the ‘Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States’. Important decisions of all the subsequent sessions of the UN General Assembly, of the 4th and 5th sessions of the UNCTAD, and of the 5th and 6th conferences of the non-aligned countries, were devoted to problems of building the New International Economic Order (N 1E0). These documents have created a certain political basis for elaborating a complex of practical measures aimed at improving the position of the developing countries in the world economy and at securing for them new sources for economic, scientific and technological progress.