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Scanning Our Future
It is rare that the international community has an opportunity to participate in one of history’s turning points. The Sevents Special Session of the General Assembly devoted to development and international economic cooperation may have been such an opportunity. It did not create “instant Utopia”, but if the general goals agreed on there serve to stimulate genuine reform in the months ahead, it will be seen as progress toward a more equitable world economic order. Its principal effect was the spirit of co-operation that it has released-the “dramatic turnaround . . . from incendiary rhetoric and confrontantion to reality and genuine negotitation.” Its fourteen days of hard bargaining through negotiating groups redulted in an unanimously adopted resolution that asresses some of the major issues confronting the world.
The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council pursuant to Article 71 of the Charter, organized the Forum on World Economic Order as a step in this process of gaining public awareness of the issues debated at the Seventh Special Session. It sought to draw those members of the NGO community that have been active in other issues into the field of development and economic co-operation, as well as to appeal to those NGOs concerned with economic issues that have not generally been involved with U.N. matters.
The forum passed no resolutions indeed, the Forum reflected the pluralistic world of the nongovernmental organizations where the only true consensus is that the issues are of crucial importance to the world and that they should be considered by the General Assembly.
The NGO Commite had hoped to encourage other NGO initiatives, including publishing a daily newspaper along the lines of those issued by NGOs at the World PopulationConference.
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