A process of discussions and negotiations between the developed or industrialized countries (the North) and the developing countries (the South). Some See: It as having begun in the early 1960s with, for example, the Alliance for Progress and the moves leading to the establishment of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in 1964 and the concurrent formation of the Group of 77. The more or less formal end of the dialogue came with the 1980 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, followed the arrival in the United Nations and its specialized agencies of a large number of newly independent developing countries whose numbers allowed them increasingly to define or influence the work programme of these bodies. This, coupled with the view advocated strongly by many developing countries that their legitimate concerns about development, economic growth and participation in the global trading system were not being taken seriously by the developed countries, led by the early 1970s to a realization by the North that something had to be done. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on the NewInternational Economic Order, in effect a vast claim for the transfer of resources from the North to the South. The adoption of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, an attempt to redefine aspects of international law, occurred in the same year. Early in 1975 followed the first Lom Convention which, though producing advantages for developing countries, also showed that probably they did not have the power to force a rapid change. See: Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States