UN General Assembly
1993

directed elsewhere, and with the main export commodity under attack, Saint Lucia is left to wonder whether there is in existence a concerted intention to marginalize small island countries or whether it is merely the accident of present world conditions that bears this responsibility. In any event, the effect remains the same. Political gain cannot be sustained in the absence of complementary economic progress. Where world economic advancement is isolated in its impact, political gain in world terms will continue to prove transitory and incapable of being sustained. It is true that the world has seen an impressive political transformation in a rather brief period of time in terms of a transition to democracy and a new degree of cooperation in the United Nations at the level of the Security Council. But if the price of these political gains is an exacerbated marginalization of the small developing countries, they will undoubtedly soon be dissipated in a sea of economic troubles and the social disruption which experience suggests must follow as a consequence.