UN General Assembly
1993

less. The structures here are not sacrosanct. No position, expenditure or institution should be free of the scrutiny under which we in Canada, and others elsewhere, have placed our own State structures. We applaud the reforms initiated by the Secretary- General and we pledge our support for further action. We urge him to press on, and we urge all Member States to Forty-eighth session - 29 September l993 9 support his efforts. Our security, the security of generations to come, is in the balance. We have a great deal to do. All of our efforts to reform the peacemaking and peace-keeping function of the United Nations will be in vain if we are not able to come to terms collectively with what must be regarded as the most dangerous current threat to international security: the ubiquitous spread of weapons of mass destruction. In too many areas of the world, the prospect of conflict involving nuclear weapons risks destabilizing already tense situations, and could lead to human disasters of unimaginable proportions. We must muster the collective resolve to put