UN General Assembly
1992

attacks in the annals of international crime. Our country will support all steps or processes that will strengthen law and the respect for standards of coexistence among nations. 78 Finally, the cancer of corruption must be rooted out. It is harmful and pernicious and undermines the efforts of States and their civilian societies for the healthy development of their political, economic and social institutions. Corruption knows no borders and coexists, or attempts to do so, with any political or legal system on our planet. Argentina is in the front lines of the struggle to combat this crime and to create the mechanisms for doing so. Allow me to return to our region and refer to some other facts of great significance. Argentina's foreign policy is geared towards creating an external context favourable to the competitive incorporation of Argentina into the world economy. In that regard, we have made the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) the axis of our activity in Latin America. The agreement on trade and investment with the United States, called "Four plus One", shows that the