UN General Assembly
1982

International Women-Year. This positive trend is further stimulated by the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of AH Forms of Discrimination against Women. We sincerely hone that the 1985 World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women will be able to review and appraise constructively the implementation of the Plan of Action. 252. This year that has witnessed its abundant share of world-wide turbulence and tragedy, and the inca-pacity of the United Nations to prevent them or to provide timely redress, and there is always the temptation to lapse into cynicism and disaffection. But the reforming impulse, the hopes and yearnings of peoples everywhere for a more peaceful, just and prosperous world order based on the ideals and principles of the Charter remain alive and cannot be quieted. 253. Indonesia remains convinced 'hat despite its present inadequacies, the United Nations still represents the best instrument to transform these hopes into reality and to fashion at least the minimum conditions for a better life for all in the decades to come. Therefore,