File concerning the organization of the Conference, includes: List of papers handed in for the conference, statement and drafts from the First Session of the North South Round Table, Rome 18-20 May 1978; Minutes of working groups held during Round Table; Members of the sessions; Conference papers: "Le context Intellectuel du dialogue Nord-Sud" par Alain Birou, "Reflexions sur les Besoins essentiels et le developpement mondial"par Albert Tevoedjre, background document from SID "Restructuring World Economic Relations: Who stands to gain?", "Une proposition pour faire face à la crise economicque interntionale par Angelos Angelopoulos; "Compatability, Contradiction and/or Conflict"; "The Role of Latin America in the North-South Dialogue" by Enrique Iglesias; Documents d’informations générales: relfexions sur les besoins essentials et le development mondial; "The North-South Communication Challenge and its Meaning for the SID North South Round Table" by Vladimir Lodygensky and Paul Marc Henry, Secretary General of SID
Address by Barbara Ward, 18 May 1978; Statement of Prof. Richard N. Gardner to the Conference; Address by the Rt. Hon Judith Hart MP, Minister of State for Overseas Development, UK to the Round Table; Working Paper 1: purpose, key issues and organization of work of the Round Table; Working Paper 2: historical perspectives of the new international economic order; Working Paper 3: North-South dialogue: the second phase: Working Paper 4: Political facets of the North South Dialogue; Working Party No. 6: How to meet basic needs – A new approach

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