The United Nations needs to share this burden and strengthen its efforts for peace in Afghanistan. The Secretary General has described the Kashmir dispute as the oldest item on the U.N. agenda. Do not close your hearts, your minds, to the torment of Kashmir. Mr. President, Global interdependence is a reality. Survival today means a common effort to reduce poverty, hunger, and disease, to save our environment, to address human needs, to prevent social disintegration, and to restore moral values as the foundation for the actions of individuals and nations.
Survival means greater democratization within nations and within the international system.
The Security Council needs enlargement, but not in its permanent membership. An Under-Secretary General should be appointed to give greater impetus to poverty alleviation. Peace-keeping and conflict resolution mechanisms need strengthening. I invite member states to Islamabad for a conference for this purpose next year. It is insufficient to denounce atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kashmir.