ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with two principal concerns. One was to determine whether the North-South negotiations are an effective medium for finding solutions to the global problems of food, population, energy, poverty, development, environment, and so forth, all of which are of profound importance to the future of the world as a whole. Second was to determine whether the US policy in this process has been supportive of US interests. Negotiations of the nieo in the usual open-ended UN forum are admirably suited to keeping results to a minimum. To the North the process has looked more like a court of justice than a diplomatic negotiation. It might be worthwhile to try to conduct a negotiation on the basis of balanced demands on both sides. There should be general agreement before any specific negotiation begins on what the North-South negotiations are all about.
