UN General Assembly
1992

agreement, there have been some hopeful signs. We commend the role played by various statesmen .in bringing this about, and we believe that the United Nations should bring its experience to bear in this final phase of the conflict. Now that a solution to the conflict is in sight, it is our hope that the world community will increase its humanitarian assistance to Mozambique, in view of the famine that threatens the population. With preparations under way in Angola for elections leading to a national government, it is our hope that peace will once again reign in that war-torn brotherly country. Somalia today has the makings of a great tragedy. With the raging of war, and the consequent massive outflow of refugees from that country, it is essential that the international community respond much more urgently and vigorously to this catastrophe. We cannot afford to sit by and watch the people of Somalia descend into a quagmire of death and destruction. From this tribune Sierra Leone calls on the Somali leaders to stop the war a war that