UN General Assembly
1995

ranging developments have been seen in many States with regard to the emergence of democracy, political plurality, respect for human rights and basic freedoms. Such developments have been accompanied by a natural yearning for the achievement of development in both its economic and social domains, while developments on the negative side have generated a wider cycle of racial, national and religious disputes in some regions of the world that have led to a noticeable retreat from respect for human rights and basic freedoms of the human individual, as well as regression of development both in the economic and social spheres. The primary task of this Organization at this point in time is, perhaps, to focus on strengthening the first tendency and to limit, as much as possible, the second. In the face of such a challenge, the task of reforming the United Nations should be met with a view to strengthening its role, making it more effective and achieving a qualitative transformation of the work of its organs. The Security Council stands in need of