UN General Assembly
1995

accompanied by the use of force and by cruelty, torture and other unspeakable acts. That is why, since joining the United Nations, my country has attached such importance to the Third Committee of the General Assembly and to questions of human rights. Last year, Andorra took an active part in the debate on capital punishment, applying the constitutional ideas approved by its people, which loves life and believes in it. The United Nations was not built in a vacuum of values — quite the contrary. When, in June 1945, the right words were being sought in San Francisco for the United Nations Charter, those that were found were based on a very clear vision of the dignity of the human being with a universal vocation. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations on 10 December 1948, made clear once and for all what was, is and will be acceptable and desirable, and what is not, in order that the inalienable dignity of every human being should be respected and the limits of tolerance demarcated by