UN General Assembly
1993

of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States, and it is prepared to render further humanitarian assistance to the Tajik people, primarily to refugees returning from Afghanistan. In the early stages of the conflict in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan twice drew the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, to the urgent need for thorough consideration of the situation and its settlement within the framework of the United Nations. We are grateful to the United Nations and to the Secretary-General for their prompt response to the concern we expressed and for their efforts to settle the conflict. We believe that the international community will properly appreciate this contribution to peace. A United Nations mission headed by Mr. Kittani, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, has been working fruitfully in the region. Data collected by the mission have, in our view, provided an opportunity to draw objective conclusions as to the nature and the driving forces of the conflict at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Nevertheless, there is hardly any basis today on which