UN General Assembly
1992

conflict and to the search for a lasting political solution. An international order that can be secured only through military presence or intervention is clearly inadequate. It is a rather sad reflection on our search for peace that as of the end of April 1992, close to $3 billion had been assessed on Member States for peace-keeping purposes alone, while the United Nations relatively neglected the economic and social underpinnings of most of these conflicts and those yet to rear their heads. The inability of the United Nations since its creation to respond effectively to our Charter's injunction to combine our efforts to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character deserves serious and careful review now that the cold war has been pronounced over. The relative inaction by the international community and within the United Nations itself on the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s speaks eloquently of our misplaced emphasis in our efforts regarding the establishment of a new world order. The opportunity presented