UN General Assembly
1993

South Africa that will lead to the establishment of a united and non-racial society. Humanity has bid farewell to chemical weapons; and it has succeeded in convening world conferences on subjects believed until recently to defy consensus, such as human rights and protection for the victims of war. The democratic changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union continue to be an important condition for the positive changes in international life at the turn of this century. The heightened attention of the world community to the social and political tensions in Moscow is as understandable as is the broad international support for the reform-minded and democratic forces in Russia, support with which Bulgaria fully agrees. The dramatic events in Moscow which we witnessed over the weekend prove how difficult and painful the transition from post-Communist 6 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session society to democracy and a market economy is, and what dangers and risks it entails. The United Nations cannot simply stand by and watch with indifference the difficulties