UN General Assembly
1991

Costa Rica hopes that the phenomenon now occurring in the Americas will prevail in the twenty-first century throughout the entire world. Costa Rica looks forward to living in a new millennium in a world of conciliation, not confrontation; a world which faces its problems and shares its successes; a world of democracy based on respect for the human person and human rights; a world in which peoples and countries will be brothers and sisters; a world with a shared horizon of development for all. As the President of Costa Rica, Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier, has stated: