UN General Assembly
1994

poverty, economic despair and insecurity. The countries in transition, including my own, are going through a painful period of trying to find their own place in the world of market economies and democracy and are additionally burdened by their own devastated 29 General Assembly 9th meeting Forty-ninth session 28 September 1994 economies, social problems and threats of new, regressive and undemocratic situations. This controversial picture of the world shows the full complexity of international economic and social development and thus raises the question of a possible way out of such a situation. I am quite certain that the majority of the world sees the solution neither in various new ideological concepts nor in new regional and political divisions along such lines - and even less in ideas leading to a division of responsibilities and rights among countries based on false altruism and utopian blueprints. A solution is possible only if we acknowledge the interdependence of economic and social development. This is a fact to which no nation today can remain indifferent,