UN General Assembly
1993

this expanded role a review of its membership to reflect the realities of today’s world is highly appropriate. However, the effectiveness of the Security Council, the highest organ of the United Nations, can be achieved only if it applies the practice of acting with determination. Experience has demonstrated that in those cases where the international community has shown determination to uphold the principles of international instruments and fully apply their provisions, progress can be made. In those cases where unity of purpose has not been shown or interests of nations have been placed above universal principles and rule of law, the problems remain, and peace is elusive. I wish to point out with emphasis that gaps in international law and practice - failure to uphold international law and human rights, or upholding them in one situation and closing our eyes to their violation in others - must no longer be acceptable behaviour, particularly in the new world order to which we all aspire. In today’s world, where economics plays an increasingly important role, the United Nations, through the