UN General Assembly
1993

confrontation of the cold-war period, we must deal with all the harm this war caused, especially in the Third World. We have to reorient global solidarity, not just in terms of assistance, but we must accept a concept that is truly very simple and logical. Some countries become rich when they do business, when they engage in trade with other rich countries. To believe that a man is rich because everybody else is poor is a holdover from the past. The great lesson of our time is that the only way to generate wealth is to help people break the shackles of poverty. We welcome the agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It marks the beginning of a new era of peace and of a new spirit of global justice and dialogue between nations facing historic circumstances. The mutual recognition of the inadmissibility of acquiring territory through war is a great stride forward, as is the great and historic lesson that, even in regions where territorial disputes so stubbornly persist, civilized dialogue, common