UN General Assembly
1985

For these reasons, it is no mere rhetorical expression or courtesy for me to reaffirm before this Assembly the firm commitment of the people and Government of Spain to defend the principles of the Charter and to strive to achieve its objectives. On the contrary, it is a profound conviction, born of the difficult but encouraging experience of our nation during the recent past. These features of our own experience in turn affect our external outlook, and is reflected in the position we adopt towards international problems. Our world is certainly very far from being the world that the drafters of the Charter wanted to build. The international community is passing through a period of uncertainty and confusion which seems to be testing the principles contained in the Charter and even bringing into question the very authority and efficiency of our Organization. We are all suffering from a climate of international tension exemplified by the persistence of international conflicts, and by the disproportionate accumulation of conventional arms and, above all, of nuclear arms, but also, as