UN General Assembly
1993

Swaziland shares with Cyprus membership in the British Commonwealth of Nations, and we support the untiring efforts of our Secretary-General to promote dialogue between Greeks and Turks so that a lasting settlement, acceptable to all, may be found. Closer to home, for many of our brotherly African countries conflict and internal strife continue to be the major obstacles in the way of the development of the continent as a whole. Of particular distress to us in southern Africa is the appalling disaster which has overtaken our brothers in Angola, where more tragedies occur each day than anywhere else in the world. If any country has suffered enough it is surely Angola. No reason can possibly justify the scale of the disaster suffered by so many. We therefore support the measures taken by the United Nations to bring about an end to the conflict, and we appeal to those responsible for the continuation of the suffering to allow sense and reason to prevail. The elections last September were judged free and fair by organizations of which we are