UN General Assembly
1995

the holding of a second international conference against the use of and illicit trafficking in drugs in order to deal with a problem that has become universal in scope. Panama, as a founding Member of this Organization and a signatory of the San Francisco Charter, has been with the United Nations for its 50 years, carrying on with it step by step, day by day, observing its magnificent achievements and its great difficulties, which for some are overwhelming. But this is not a time for fear or regrets; it is a time for new endeavours, a time to promote new forms, ways and means of international cooperation, with a view to generating, by cultivating the complementary development of our national individualities, the cultural, economic and human resources that can enable us to be free of poverty and backwardness and to open an ever- broadening road to understanding, tolerance, peace and prosperity as we enter the third millennium.