UN General Assembly
1993

At the beginning of my address I expressed the Swazi delegation’s welcome for the accession of six new Members as an indication of the Organization’s respect for the principle of universality. We confirmed that it is a basic human right of all peoples to be represented at the United Nations so that the widest possible range of opinions and experience may be pooled, and the benefits of the Organization shared by all countries. The President returned to the Chair. Yet the Kingdom of Swaziland has enjoyed a long and happy relationship with 21 million people who believe that they have had no representation here since 1971: I refer to the people of the Republic of China. For the past 25 years the Republic of China has shown itself to be a true friend of Swaziland. We have benefited from the experience of development which has lifted the Republic of China to a position high on the list of industrialized nations. The rest of the world has been excluded from that experience and from the positive