UN General Assembly
1992

ethnic purity. This shows that the world still lacks a common moral concept and the means of developing it in a rational and sound way. Such a concept should be based on consensus among our various societies, and it should be developed within the framework of our political experience since the Second World War. It should also be based on an analysis of all that has been achieved and all that has not been achieved, with a view to assessing the role played by.existing human-rights instruments and deciding whether to develop such instruments further or to replace them with new ones. We need a new world social contract between various world communities, cultures and civilizations. This new social contract should be based not on one model, no matter how successful such a model may have proved to be, but on rules upon which there is common agreement and which take into consideration the intrinsic characteristics of various societies, with a view to devising the best framework for the achievement of unity through diversity. In this