text: adopt courageous measures, largely political, to reduce the debt burden by other means. The important decisions taken in Toronto, as well as the measures adopted by the Governments of France, the United States, Japan, Italy and Belgium, are very much appreciated. However, we believe that they should be accompanied by similar efforts to restructure the private debt. JP/jl A/S-18/PV.4 54-55 (Mr. Bako, Niger) In any event,' Niger believes that what is truly needed is a comprehensive, definitive solution resulting from consensus following frank dialogue and a multilateral meeting of debtors and creditors. The current session precedes four crucial dates in the calendar of multilateral co-operation and development activities. There is, first, consideration of a new strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade. The achievements of the 1980s were such that it is generally regarded as a lost decade. We therefore have high hopes of a new strategy to promote growth and development. Next there is the second Paris Conference on the Least Developed Countries, which should be an occasion for stock-taking with regard to implementation of the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries, adopted in 1981, and for the adoption of realistic, but ambitious, goals for the 1990s. On the one hand, they should aim at ending the worsening socio-economic situation, already precarious, of the least developed countries, and on the other they should involve those countries in working towards sustained, lasting development. The Conference should obtain new resources for the Programme to be devoted to priority development sectors -Particularly agriculture, education and health -on the basis of mutual, responsible commitments entered into by the lenders and the least developed countries.* * Mr. Vraalsen (Norway), Vice-President, took the Chair. JSM/gt A/S-18/PV. 4 56 (Mr. Bako, Niger) 
analysis: The text discusses the debt burden and its impact on the economy, particularly on the least developed countries. It also touches on the importance of a comprehensive solution, including restructuring private debt, and the need for new resources for development sectors such as agriculture, education, and health. This suggests that the category should be related to economic development and international cooperation.