UN General Assembly
1998

and as we assert our inalienable human right to development and call upon others to respect that right by withdrawing their challenge to the lifeblood of our economy, we urge the rich nations to recognize the insensitivity of globalization, and we ask the international community to take as an example that great international leader, President Nelson Mandela. As we seek to establish a new, more humane international order for the coming millennium, an order that will truly reflect the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, let us remember the moral leadership that he has given us. Nelson Mandela taught us that holding steadfast to principle and insisting on justice can produce change even in the most intransigent of systems. The world has become a global neighbourhood, and we must insist on living by brotherly principles and values. The focus for moral leadership might have shifted to the developing world, with Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro as the twin peaks of international inspiration. It is their lifelong struggle for human rights that must become