UN General Assembly
1992

large or medium military capabilities. This is a legitimate question and we, the smaller States, should look for an answer to it that would meet our urgent concerns. If preventive diplomacy is to proceed initially from the principle of fact-finding, such fact-finding should be based on information-gathering from original sources and should avoid selectivity and hasty conclusions that could become the justification for specific actions which may well be military in nature. We in the developing world have suffered a great deal from the unfair communication of facts on issues concerning our countries, either through mass media networks or governmental and non-governmental organizations which may be active in our countries. We hope that the United Nations and its various agencies, in all cases, will act impartially and not fall prey to narrow political opportunism. In the midst of international changes, we in the Sudan are striving to spread the principles of Shura meaning consultation and participation in decision-making - and democracy, and to find a peaceful and lasting political