UN General Assembly
1990

"Certainly we feel that all efforts to eliminate hotbeds of tension in the world, to silence guns and to stop fighting are praiseworthy. But we are convinced that even if - and this is something for which we hope deeply – the present conflicts were to end tomorrow, the world will still be on the verge of the abyss of war so long as the gap between rich and poor nations, far from diminishing, continues to grow, throwing into irreparable, Sisyphean despair so many people who have and laudable efforts to emerge from such a situation.”