UN General Assembly
1993

headed by the Bretton Woods institutions. Unfortunately, the launching of this programme, which the Government could apparently have carried out without too many sudden detours, coincided with the attack of October 1990. From this rostrum, I would like most solemnly to thank the international community for the support it has accorded Rwanda both with assistance in the balance of payments and with development projects. We are even more grateful for the priority the international community has given to assistance for those displaced by the war, in answer to the consolidated appeal made by the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, whose dedication is inestimable. Following the war and the new deterioration of the terms of trade which affected the economy of Rwanda, the very backbone of our structural adjustment programme is threatened. I am speaking here of the liberalization of external and internal trade which requires a comfortable currency reserve situation. The Government of Rwanda has just decided upon the primary features of its short- and medium-term post-war economic policy from 1993 to 1996, items we have