UN General Assembly
1995

We all have a collective responsibility to ensure that a more precise vision of the role of the modern United Nations is created. With political will, we can do it. In this process, I suggest that the moment is right for us to rededicate ourselves to the Charter, for it is the principles enshrined in it that represent our best opportunity for finding a clear direction ahead as we approach the new millennium. No less important is that we, as Member States, should equip our Organization with the resources to carry out its reinvigorated mandate. The United Nations must further enlarge its instruments of preventive diplomacy. The Secretary- General’s Agenda for Peace has clearly made an outstanding contribution to discussions in this area. Fiji urges the Assembly to give earnest consideration to implementing his recommendations on this issue. Fiji considers that there is much merit to proposals that a special department or unit be set up to deal with conflict prevention and resolution. This unit could coordinate the actions of a rapid-deployment force to be dispatched to