UN General Assembly
1992

States will emerge. It is essential that such links must first conform to the principles of international law, democracy, and respect for universally recognized standards for the protection of human rights and the rights of minorities and nations. The trend of the pre-modern world was towards the concentration of power through the conquest of territory and war. The trend of the modern world is increasingly economic through cooperation and association, through improvement of the quality of life and respect for natural limitations trends which were at least partly defined at the recent world ecological summit. Slovenia is situated in an area where the pre-modern and modern worlds meet in both perception and in practice. It is in the interest of the United Nations and of all nations of the modern world, so that the modern world will border only on the modern world. Allow me to suggest that after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the democratization of Eastern Europe, the democratic world did not respond with