UN General Assembly
1993

attention to the acute problems relating to development. Our conviction is that the focus of the development debate must be shifted to human development and that bold initiatives must be taken to combat poverty and to lighten the burden which structural adjustment places on the most vulnerable in our societies - our women and our children. Barbados is heartened by the Secretary-General’s "agenda for development" proposal and looks forward with interest to reviewing the report requested in General Assembly resolution 47/181. We also welcome the timely initiative taken by the Government of Papua New Guinea, an initiative in which I understand you yourself, Mr. President, have no small interest. My delegation hopes that this matter will be given the serious and urgent consideration it merits. Among the deterrents to development, drug trafficking remains one source of grave concern to the Governments of the Caribbean. Apart from the tragic consequences that drug addiction has for the health of our people, illegal drugs constitute the single most pervasive ingredient of increased crime in our societies. In Barbados, for example, the