This is only the most spectacular of many U.N. engagements with commerce, the private sector. Intergovernmental oversight of U.N. aid has been much rationalized. This is new, this is a good reform. I make up for that in overdoing the subject in the pages that follow. Another side of this is, no security, no development.
Years invested in infrastructure can vanish in sudden conflict.
Canada has again put itself on the spot as a newly elected member of the Council. With Mary Robinson, High Commissionary, the U.N. rejoiced in the fiftieth anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Although still hampered by her tiny share of U.N. funds, Mrs. Robinson has set a new tone in her approach. A new convention on the Right to Development is in the making. Both in U.N. New York and in the field, in overall U.N. strategy and in aid to countries, an underlying objective is promotion of rights.