UN General Assembly
1993

resolve a conflict such as the one that afflicted El Salvador for such a long time. We have no doubt that without this international attention a solution to the problem in El Forty-eighth session - 27 September l993 3 Salvador would have been much more difficult and complicated. El Salvador is a living example of how the transition from a world dominated by a confrontational bipolarity to one determined by the logic of specific situations is taking place. We do not doubt for one instant that the engine of the world process is changing: from abusive and heartless ideology to pragmatic and ordered rationality. There have always been many problems and conflicts in the world, but for a long time the international drama seemed to be an increasingly absorbing confrontation of ideologies. This distortion, aggravated by the real problems that existed, impeded their solution. It is true that since the cold war painful and cruel situations have erupted, such as the one now experienced in the former Yugoslavia. But ideological, strategic and geopolitical bipolarity artificially created some