UN General Assembly
1992

ensure a fair electoral campaign, and free and fair elections. In turn, the presence of thousands of domestic and numerous foreign observers is a solid guarantee of this. It is not my intention to speak here and now about the heavy tolls the Romanian people has already paid on the road to a reform process able to strike a feasible balance between legitimate aspirations and the scarcity of the economic resources needed to meet them. But I feel entitled to say that the incidental lapses that have sometimes seemed to jeopardize the steady course of transition stemmed not from attempts to look back but rather from a certain eagerness to step into the future one day sooner. Like all the other new Central European democracies, Romania is undergoing a test that has no historical precedent, namely simultaneously to create new political structures and new, workable economic mechanisms. However, as our Prime Minister recently said, we have already saved ourselves from five years of perestroika. And we must keep on forging forward while,