UN General Assembly
1995

why prospects are now brightening in Angola, under United Nations leadership, while we have not quite succeeded in Somalia, Rwanda or Bosnia and Herzegovina. As I speak, conflicts are raging unabated in the world, especially in parts of Africa, the Balkans and the Caucasus. A lot of work is yet to be done in the area of peace-keeping. Every effort must be made to enhance the capacity of the United Nations along the lines described in the 1992 “An Agenda for Peace” (A/47/277) and its supplement (A/50/60), issued in January this year. The real problem with the United Nations rests with the new post-cold-war era. The promises of peace have eluded us and as a result we are still “in the woods” regarding the international community’s ability to manage non-military transnational issues, including development, environmental degradation and inequalities within and between nations. One point of grave concern to my delegation is that the new world order — if there is order at all — has tended to perpetuate the situation in which the wealthy and