UN General Assembly
1993

children. This has also affected the pace of the Republic’s transition to new social and economic realities. We call upon the United Nations, in close cooperation with the Commission of the European Communities, to continue their efforts to further study and overcome the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. We hope that in the process of reforming the United Nations system and its Secretariat the necessary institutional and programme mechanisms will be worked out to further carry out Chernobyl-related activities in the interests of the entire international community, taking into consideration the great significance and uniqueness of the lessons of the Chernobyl tragedy. The activities carried out by the new United Nations Coordinator on Chernobyl, Mr. Jan Eliasson, the beginning of whose work is greatly appreciated by us, gives us hope that the United Nations potential will be used actively enough to yield tangible practical results. In the post-Chernobyl era we need moral and psychological support, sometimes simply compassion. In this connection I should like to recall the words of a great Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who is connected to