UN General Assembly
1995

Organization’s fiftieth anniversary there are still many hotbeds of tension in many parts of the world. In Europe, the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, notwithstanding some glimmers of hope on the horizon, continues to cause concern to all States. We hope that the talks now under way among the parties concerned will lead to a comprehensive settlement of the situation. In the Middle East the prospects opened up by the Declaration of Principles signed at Washington on 13 September 1993 between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization continue to yield 5 promising results. Despite the extremists of every stamp who are incapable of accepting alternatives to violence and death, negotiations have not been broken off. The signing at Washington on 28 September 1995 of the Agreement negotiated at Taba on a timetable for the second phase of the Israeli Army’s withdrawal from the West Bank and the transfer of additional powers to the Palestinian Authority is a further step in the right direction. Burkina Faso encourages this pattern of negotiation, which led to the