UN General Assembly
1992

may help to solve economic and social problems and embark upon a process of frank cooperation with nations that are in the greatest need of help to raise their standards of living. Notwithstanding these positive advances and these undertakings, we look to the future with concern, as the new situation resulting from the historic circumstances of the last two years has not managed to prevent the outburst of bloody regional conflicts. Nationalist extremists have produced the phenomenon of the exceptionally violent disintegration of States, and in such a climate new calamities and hardships have arisen. A responsible approach to the common obligations of mankind is now more important than ever before. The world has shrunk physically and in terms of human relationships. The problems of a particular State affect other States in various ways and make it necessary that we take remedial action in a spirit of solidarity. Meanwhile, the old problems of disparity between an economically powerful world, embracing a limited number of countries, and the developing world, comprising the bulk of mankind, continue to worsen. Insufficient funding for