UN General Assembly
1995

to strengthen the Organization and make its decisions really effective. We shall do so on the basis of our 17 principles of international policy, seeking always to reflect the views and interests of the region we wish to represent. We believe that the primary objective of a security policy is to reduce the insecurity of the international community as a whole, of its Member States and of individuals, families and the communities in which they live. Helping to reduce these insecurities is the main task of the United Nations. We are experiencing the combined effects of the ending of the cold war and of the process of increasing globalization. Both have positive consequences in the economic and political spheres, but at the same time they face us with new situations and uncertainties. The fear of the nuclear destruction that might have resulted from the world-wide ideological confrontation between the major Powers has disappeared, and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), to which Chile is now a party, has been indefinitely extended.