UN General Assembly
1993

the population. My delegation, while welcoming the efforts of the United Nations to restore normal living conditions, expresses its grave concern at the enormous loss of life among the civilian populations and the Blue Helmets alike. Given the present delicate situation there, it is important, as the Security Council unanimously urged on 22 September, to redouble efforts to reach a political settlement. To that end, we cannot overemphasize the need to do everything possible to fulfil the objectives of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II), namely, the "facilitation of humanitarian assistance and the restoration of law and order, and of national reconciliation in a free, democratic and sovereign Somalia ...". (Security Council resolution 865 (1993), para. 4.) As for Liberia and Rwanda, which have for a number of years been arenas of cruel, fratricidal upheavals, Togo is pleased to see that, thanks to the courage, farsightedness and determination of the parties concerned, there are finally some indications of genuine prospects for a final settlement of those conflicts through, respectively, the Cotonou and Arusha Agreements.