UN General Assembly
1992

European Community. The goal would be to put a rapid end to the armed confrontation and define a framework for a peaceful settlement of the crisis acceptable to all parties. The United Nations would take the initiative here, but the modalities of the meeting would be defined among all the organizers, who would also jointly agree on the list of participants. For my part, I should be represented there both as current Chairman of the OAU and as President of the sixth Islamic summit. But I cannot stress too forcefully that while awaiting that conference, for which we earnestly wish, the international community must continue to help the victims of the confrontations imposed upon the Somali people by armed factions. In particular, it should do everything it can to ensure that the arms embargo imposed in Security Council resolution 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 is strictly observed, and should take every other possible initiative to put an end to the violence and the suffering. That wish of the