UN General Assembly
1992

discipline. The permanent members of the Security Council have a special responsibility in this respect. And the question must be raised whether countries should be eligible at all for membership of the Security Council if they have not paid their dues. We must be willing to provide the Secretary-General and his staff with the necessary means to promote peace and to wage war against environmental degradation and underdevelopment. Our daily diet of printed and electronic presents a picture of a world in need of better governance and of more coordination. Our present forms of cooperation, developed in a less interdependent world, are still too weak and unlikely to stand the test of time. We should not pretend that they can.