UN General Assembly
1996

session of the General Assembly which has been proposed by the Government of Mexico. The group of experts should be formed in four months’ time, and Colombia will be pleased to host its first meeting. I call 3 on world leaders to communicate to Colombia their recommendations on how best to organize the work of this group of experts. The globalization of problems in today’s world is taking place much faster than the globalization of solutions. Terrorism, and drugs and arms trafficking do not respect either national boundaries or barriers. Developing countries have fewer opportunities and more limited resources to confront the invasive power of these threats, in the face of which there are neither weak nor strong, only victims. I invoke the memory of those killed by these wars which will also exist in the next century. I invoke our children’s future, threatened by bombs, illegal drugs and guns. I invoke the plain cause of the coexistence of the world in order to commit ourselves to this formidable task of blocking the path of organized crime which today