efforts to restructure international economic relations with a view to making the international economic environment more just and more equitable. Numerous efforts have been made over time to achieve an economic order more responsive to the needs and aspirations of all peoples. We recall, in that connection, the Programme of Action for the Establishment of the New International Economic Order, the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties, the Integrated Programme for Comnodi ties and the United Nations Programme for African Economic Recovery and Development, among others, the full implementation of which would perhaps have obviated the need for measures now being considered to reactivate growth and development in developing countries. In other words, the problem is not so much the evolution of new ideas or strategies but more a need to commit ourselves to pursuing ever more vigorously a course of action already perceived with sufficient clad tv. ~ delegation believes that the main task of the special session should therefore be to ensure renewed commitment to the imPlementation of Programmes and strategies aimed at addressing those pressing social and economic problems facing JB/9 A/S-18/PV. 7 38 (Mr. Johnson, Liberia) the world today, especially in the developing countries. Though the number of such problems is: practically unlimited, my delegation wishes to draw special attention to at least four areas uPOn which the international communi tv can focus its co-operative attention in the 1990s to help extricate the developing countries from their current state of underdevelopment and negative growth. These four areas include the problems of external debt, international trade, human-resource development and the environment. But I should first like to observe that this session could not have occurred at a more appropriate time than now, when the cold war has virtually ended, therebv significantly increasing the 'POtential for resources to be shifted from armaments to development. 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the reorganization of international economic relations to promote more just and equitable economic development, specifically focusing on the challenges faced by developing countries. It highlights the need for cooperation in areas such as external debt, international trade, human-resource development, and the environment.

**Category**
Economic development, International trade