UN General Assembly
1992

community persists in its collective endeavour to achieve a peaceful solution of these problems. In this it finds encouragement in the progress being achieved elsewhere, especially in Cambodia, in Central America and in Angola. A few days ago Malta joined a large majority of the United Nations membership in deciding to deny the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro its claim to succeed the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and consequently in calling upon it to reapply for United Nations membership in conformity with the provisions of the Charter. We did so in the light of our shared abhorrence of the atrocities that are taking place in the region of former Yugoslavia. In the Middle East, the peace process launched in Madrid last year continues upon its fragile but persistent path. In South Africa, the hopes for an early and peaceful dismantlement of the policy of apartheid have ebbed and flowed in recent months in the wake of alternately encouraging and tragic events. In these instances too, however, the collective determination of the