UN General Assembly
1991

We are also witnessing the phenomena of fusion and fission. While we talk about regrouping, about the formation of largo groups, we see some large groups breaking up. At a time when we extend recognition, on the emergence of new sovereignties, we hear talk of a duty to intervene. All these ideas are jostling with each other, without any focus on their future. It is natural in any period of major change to see the overturning of ideas and realities and the multiplication of the contradictions inherent in the sudden speeding up of history. Transitions - fraught as they are with those elements - are producing a balance of forces which is shaping the future. The question which arises is to what extent will the vast majority of mankind benefit from this evolution?