But what is happening today in East Timor?

Why doesn't this happen at some other time?

That's mumbo jumbo, Sarah. lt doesn't work like that.

These conferences are held at a time when conflicts are escalating, and this is no accident.

Alongside this crisis, a serious change is taking place at the cost of developing countries, particularly poor countries.

For this to happen, we have to adapt our institutions and procedures to the world as we find it today.

This must all take place in a climate of reconciliation, which is essential, and of reasonable flexibility and, of course, with the armed forces clearly subordinate to the civil power, as the law requires.

Never before has our Organization been called upon to participate in so many important, difficult and complex duties in all areas political and economic as well as military.

The decision to keep it in operation was adopted by a mere two vote majority, and that was only because a cold winter lies ahead, with a difficult energy crisis.

In order to meet the requirements of the population between 1993 and the end of the millennium, the developing world would, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), need to create 700 million new jobs in seven years.

Never before, in all of history, has there been such a seeping sense of helplessness, such a sense that any action can be subverted, any process eroded, any campaign vitiated by the forces of evil.

In today apos s world no country can remain unaffected by the havoc of another, whether caused by hunger, tyranny, environmental pollution or the proliferation of weapons.

While these two agreements bespoke the desire to implement the stipulations of the resolutions of international legality, we believe it is essential to make decisive progress on the Syrian Israeli and the Lebanese Israeli tracks in the very near future.