UN General Assembly
1992

an end to the status quo, characterized by the Security Council as not acceptable. Unfortunately, the Turkish side remained intransigent on its aims of perpetuating the division of Cyprus into two "ethnically clean" regions, in utter violation of human rights and basic rules of international law. Even today we hear voices from Turkey speaking against federation, claiming that since two different communities live on Cyprus the island should be partitioned. Just imagine how the world would look if this principle were applied universally. As the Secretary-General underlined in an interview a few days ago, the new danger that will appear in the world in the next 10 years is more fragmentation. Rather than 100 or 200 countries, said the Secretary-General, there may be at the end of the century 400 countries. By way of example he went on to say that in Africa there are 5,000 tribes, and if each tribe claimed the right to self-determination we would end up with many small States of 50,000 to 100,000 people each. We can all imagine the effects that this