Recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic endeavour should be conducted with a view to raising standards of living, ensuring full employment and a large and steadily growing volume of real income and effective demand, and expanding the production of and trade in goods and services, while allowing for the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development,
ob spoznanju, da bi morale svoje odnose na področju trgovinskih in gospodarskih prizadevanj razvijati s ciljem dvigovati življenjsko raven, zagotavljati polno zaposlenost ter velik in enakomerno rastoč obseg realnega dohodka in realnega povpraševanja ter širiti proizvodnjo in trgovino z blagom in storitvami ob najugodnejši izrabi svetovnih resursov v skladu s cilji uravnoteženega razvoja ob prizadevanju za varovanje in ohranjanje okolja in večanje sredstev za ta namen na način, ki je skladen z njihovimi ustreznimi potrebami in prizadevanji na različnih ravneh gospodarskega razvoja,