UN General Assembly
1997

the efforts he will need to make to ensure the success of the action he takes in the service of the United Nations. It is often said that the international context has changed, that the fields of activity of the States that we represent are being subjected to attacks on all sides as science and technology progress. The globalization of our economies, based on the proclaimed virtues of liberalism, has not yet yielded all that it could. The new world order that we have so long hoped for has not yet arrived, because so many contradictions are woven into the fabric of international relations. Yet no one can fail to see that it represents both the matrix and the support essential to carrying out the reform of the United Nations so that it can better serve peace among nations and the development of their peoples. I should like first to speak about peace, the chief wealth of nations, and I shall do so, of course, in the light of our own experience.