UN General Assembly
1993

changes which have been as rapid as they have been bewildering. The ensuing challenge which lies before small countries such as ours, daunting as it is because of our slender resources, is to develop the necessary resilience to enable us to adapt to these changes. I am of the view that incorporated within the idea of universality is the concept of common progress and the need to ensure that an environment is created within which world-embracing advancement becomes possible. In this context, the United Nations cannot be expected to micro-manage global change; as the pre-eminent global 20 General Assembly - Forty-eighth session Organization, its resources must be enhanced to allow it to play an even greater role as a fulcrum, both in the traditional spheres of activity and in new areas created by the new order of things. The United Nations is, accordingly, seen as playing an expanded role in the economic welfare of developing countries, including the development and application of further initiatives to address constraints imposed by smallness and island status.