UN General Assembly
1993

It may be appropriate to stop here and wonder whether the United Nations has done all it should to address the problems that have surfaced due to this major transformation in world order? Has the machinery which we and many others have called for been made available to the world Organization to enable it to fulfil its role in a manner that is compatible with the developments of our time? Even if the United Nations has moved as we had hoped, have the Member States made available to it the material and moral resources to enable it to take effective action to address all of the world problems, wherever they may appear? We do not believe anyone in today’s world searches for the Utopia described in Plato’s Republic or Farabi’s Ideal City. Yet everyone would like to see the United Nations made able to achieve practical solutions for world problems. Forty-eighth session - 6 October 1993 9 For it is our conviction that any blood shed by a hand prompted by an ethnic bigotry or racial hatred would be a