UN General Assembly
1992

seek to increase its role, its powers and the scope of its activities. The United Nations should give the regional centres greater means so that they could fully participate in the strengthening of security and peace. Serious problems such as the ones connected with the maintenance of international peace and security persist, and this absolutely dictates the exploration of new approaches that could lead to a strengthening of the ability of the United Nations to act. While the East-West confrontation paralysed the Organization as it tried to carry out its noble mission, the current detente seems to offer greater opportunities now to Member States to reaffirm their commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter. For its part our country reiterates its faith in the United Nations and adheres to the mechanisms for establishing preventive diplomacy and restoring and maintaining peace. However, the efficient functioning of the United Nations presupposes restructuring its organs and adapting them to contemporary facts. The promotion of democracy and human rights means today that the fate of