UN General Assembly
1992

financial and economic situation which has produced considerable social tension, has during this transitional stage adopted a posture favourable to dialogue, convinced that confrontation should in all circumstances give way to dialogue. Because of this attitude we are completely in control of the situation. Thus, stability has at no time been jeopardized, as is proved by the fact that we foiled the attempted coup d'etat of 26 September last. This attempt failed because the Comorian people, aware of its Government's efforts to set up the necessary democratic institutions and to create the circumstances which would promote its social development, did not respond to an appeal, the purpose of which was to compromise the chances of creating a real State of law. In order to realize these noble ambitions, the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros is once more turning to the international community, to the United Nations, and to its great family in particular, to remind them that now, more than ever, it has need of their