UN General Assembly
1994

nation-building, have produced new threats to peace in parts of the former Soviet Union, in Yugoslavia and in Africa. Horror stories have emerged from Bosnia, Liberia, Rwanda and Somalia. Some of the problems seem to have no immediate prospect of solution. Somalia and Liberia are coming close to being written off as Afghanistan has been. To an increasing degree regional organizations and small States like Ghana are being called upon to bear the burden of securing a peaceful world, a burden far above their means. In such situations success depends largely upon support from the more endowed members of the international community, either through the United Nations or on a direct bilateral basis. In Liberia, Ghana and a few other countries members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are groaning under the burden of helping the Liberians maintain a nation. In Rwanda, in the heat of battle Ghana and Canada were left alone to grapple with a horror situation without adequate material support. Even after the international community was shamed into action,