UN General Assembly
1992

of the General Assembly, the then Philippine Foreign Minister, General Carlos P. Romulo, said: "At no time in history has it been more clear that the many and closely interrelated global problems that beset us will not yield to piecemeal and national solutions. The paramount importance of the United Nations as the capstone of human society has been reaffirmed with great force by the momentous events even of this single year. The design of a new world economic order, the mobilizing of world agriculture, a global approach to population problems, the equitable redistribution of world economic resources, the achievement of disarmament and peace all require an ever more effective and more efficient world Organization. "For these reasons, it is more than ever appropriate that we are continuing our consideration of the improvement of the United Nations itself. The centrality of the United Nations is obvious and inescapable. The increasing value of the United Nations is undoubted. But its rate of adaptation to rapidly moving world affairs is doubted;