UN General Assembly
1993

The Conference on Human Rights which took place in Vienna last June confirmed global standards of respect for and protection of human rights and recommended the establishment of a high commissioner for human rights. Slovenia intends to submit during this session proposals for enhancing the activities of the United Nations in the field of human rights, strengthening the Centre for Human Rights and the establishment of a high commissioner for human rights. Economic cooperation is of particular importance. Cooperation in the framework of a series of existing international organizations and integrations must be seen in the context of its extension to new members. Agreements on economic cooperation between members and non-members of trading blocs are already being concluded, although sometimes too slowly. In any case, it is important that these associations should not close the door to the new democracies, since this could greatly impede the development of market economies in the new democracies at the very start. It is to be hoped that regional Economic Commissions, specialized agencies of the United Nations and