UN General Assembly
1994

Indeed, one of the major challenges facing our Organization today is development. The development strategies and programmes that have been pursued thus far have not yielded the desired results, in particular in the case of Africa. “An Agenda for Development”, proposed by the Secretary-General, does provide a useful opportunity to diagnose the existing situation, in particular in Africa, and should permit us to propose appropriate measures to lay the foundations for lasting development for the benefit of all the peoples and nations of the world. The Agenda represents the last hope for millions of people living in poverty and destitution, for millions of children dying every year of endemic diseases, and for the millions of refugees around the world. That is why my delegation welcomes the upcoming World Summit for Social Development, scheduled for March 1995 in Copenhagen. Similarly, the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing in 1995, should make an important contribution to the elaboration of “An Agenda for Development”. This Conference will permit our countries to better manage the tremendous human resource