UN General Assembly
1993

I wish to begin by congratulating the President and the other officers of the Assembly on their election to their high, responsible posts and by wishing them every success in their work, which will certainly yield positive results for us all. The end of the twentieth century will go down in history as the period in which the cold war came to an end and which saw the dawn of a new world, a period of new opportunities to do things that only yesterday would have taken a miracle to achieve. It is enough to recall the historic agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the reductions in nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, and, for my country, something that seemed impossible only very recently: the achievement of the high degree of sovereignty that permits us to speak from the rostrum of the General Assembly Hall. I represent a small country that can be viewed as an oasis of democracy. But that is not strictly accurate: we are