UN General Assembly
1995

to pay in full and on time, it also believes that a second component of the principle of sovereign equality — the equal rights of all Member States — is not respected by the present assessment. The resulting over-assessment is a reason that has led, in spite of Latvia’s best efforts under difficult financial conditions and in the face of many pressing social, economic and humanitarian needs, to a build-up of arrears which now threaten the application of Article 19 of the Charter, beginning January 1996. It will force Latvia to seek relief from the General Assembly. In discussing the work of the United Nations in the economic and social sphere, it is useful to do so from the perspective of the individual. Is he or she secure? Has he or she enough food? Does he or she have adequate living conditions and opportunities for developing his or her potential? In the world today, enormous differences in levels of development persist among countries. The United Nations has accomplished a great deal in its work to eradicate