UN General Assembly
1995

management of the United Nations financial resources. My delegation is convinced that it would make good managerial sense for us to try to curtail the dramatic increase in the expenses of United Nations peace-keeping and related operations, which, in 1995, have grown to over $3 billion and are currently contributing to the United Nations financial difficulty. It is one thing to discuss United Nations efforts in maintaining international peace and security in financial and managerial terms and another to view them from the human perspective. The tribal, ethnic and religious conflicts that are the source of the ongoing hostilities in places such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Lebanon and Cyprus existed long before the end of the cold war, many of them even long before the United Nations came into existence. There is not much the United Nations can do as long as the peoples involved have no desire to coexist in peace. That is why Thailand fully supports the United Nations continuing work on the Agenda for Peace, initiated by the United Nations