UN General Assembly
1993

social and economic consequences, illiteracy, environmental degradation, underdevelopment, and all those other ills that beset us. In an increasingly interdependent world, and faced with this challenge, nations must agree to yield part - only part - of their national sovereignty to our universal human values, and to show greater determination to coexist despite cultural, political, social and economic differences. Only in that way can the world of the twenty-first century be a more hospitable one for people, wherever they may live and whoever they may be.