UN General Assembly
1993

permanent members so as to reflect the realities of today’s world, allowing for the rotation of membership and an equitable geographical distribution in the composition of the Council. We are also in favour of the revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social, cultural and related spheres. It is essential that the necessary measures be adopted as soon as possible to strengthen the capacity of those organs concerned in order to discharge the functions conferred upon them by the Charter of the United Nations in the sphere of international cooperation. We welcome the steps that have already been taken to achieve the objectives we have set, but we believe that we need to arrive at a more effective and more economical United Nations system, one which is at the same time less passive in executing the programmes adopted here. The emergence of new conflicts and the persistence of old ones in different parts of the world reconfirm, if such a thing is necessary, the proven wisdom of trying to achieve, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the United