UN General Assembly
1992

international community, rather than relieving and helping us, has unfortunately perceived the problem only from the purely humanitarian standpoint, thus disregarding the negative consequences for the entire social and economic life of my country. In response to the egalitarian ideas we have been hearing for many years, which originate from beyond our frontiers, my Government has been constantly engaged in examining all possibilities which might lead to the restoration of peace. It has also pursued a process leading to the establishment of new institutions, which were put to the judgement of the voters at the beginning of this month. The response of the people was astonishingly clear. The vote was preceded by a law instituting a general amnesty relating to events during the period characterized by the de facto partition, brought about on the initiative of a negligible portion of the population. They had considerable foreign reinforcements, who came from not very far away, and whose motives, as well as the origin of the resources they received, were not hard to ascertain.