UN General Assembly
1995

the job we entrust to it. Clearly, setting out on a second 50 years with a crippling financial crisis is not the best way to do so. In India we make considerable efforts to pay our contributions promptly and in full. We believe that all Members must pay their assessed contributions in full and on time. Further, those in arrears must announce a schedule for settlement. There can be no progress in the on-going efforts for financial reform unless this is done. The fiftieth session of the General Assembly is a historic one. It is our responsibility to rejuvenate the United Nations, give it the tasks we want it to do, and the means with which to do them. We set up the United Nations because we felt that all of us stood to gain from it. In the dark days of the cold war and in the friction between North and South, we seem to have lost this vision. Since the inception of the United Nations, India has been committed to the principles and objectives of the