UN General Assembly
1993

border between the two countries, which was recently confirmed by the Security Council, constitutes a serious obstacle to peace. The persistence of those and other conflicts should not make us forget the progress achieved in the solution of many others. Here we would especially mention the success achieved in Cambodia through the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), with the holding last May of elections for a Constituent Assembly, elections that paved the way to national unity and reconciliation. In the Middle East, the serious obstacles that were threatening to scuttle the peace process launched two years ago in Madrid have been overcome. The mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), along with the signing in Washington on 13 September of an Agreement on the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian regime in Jericho and Gaza, is a development of far-reaching significance. Spain welcomes this fundamental step in the tortured history of the Middle East and is prepared, together with other countries, to maintain its political and economic support in order to