(ج) يجب ألا ينظر إلى التعاون بين بلدان الجنوب على أنه بديل للتعاون بين الشمال والجنوب. ويجب ألا يكون تعزيز التعاون بين بلدان الجنوب تدبيرا يتخذ لمواجهة تراجع اهتمام العالم المتقدم النمو بمساعدة البلدان النامية؛
South-South cooperation is a common endeavour of peoples and countries of the South and must be pursued as an expression of South-South solidarity and a strategy for economic independence and self-reliance of the South based on their common objectives and solidarity; South-South cooperation and its agenda must be driven by the countries of the South; South-South cooperation must not be seen as a replacement for North-South cooperation.