UN General Assembly
1992

domestic persecution will it be possible, now that the East-West conflict is over, to make the desired transition from policies of national hegemony and armament to the rule of law, collective security and economic and social development. What will this require? Firstly, the system of collective security of the United Nations, and of regional arrangements such as the CSCE, must be made a powerful instrument of a new world domestic policy. Conflicts are, unfortunately, emerging faster than the instruments to contain them. You, Mr. Secretary-General, have made extensive proposals with the correct aim of making the United Nations, for the first time in its history, what the Charter intended it to be: the world community's chief custodian of peace; and that aim, I say here, can be achieved. "Nip it in the bud!" This must be the golden rule of conflict prevention. Diplomatic activity must start before an acute threat to security occurs. Such activity must, where necessary, be reinforced by the preventive deployment of peace-keeping forces. This proposal has our full support. It